Originally Posted by amnomad
Maybe that allows you to decide which cog you want to be on when it goes from low to high range, like when I'm in 5 gear and reach a certian speed I want to switch to the higher range, ie 6th gear. Does that make sense? I guess so if you want you can go directly from 2nd gear to "7th" gear.
There is no discernable way for the rear hub to sense either the position of the derailleur or which cog the chain is engaging. If it were my bike, I would put it on my workstand with the pieplate in #1 position and the chain on the smallest cog, accelerate the cranks gradually to a rapid spin, and hope to get the mystery hub to do something. If I am correct, at startup, the freewheel cogs will rotate about 33% faster than the rear wheel; past the shift point, the cogset and the rear wheel should rotate at the same rate, as on conventional freewheel systems.
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