Originally Posted by rhm

I'd sure be willing to try out that five-speed!

Anyone know any more about that Miyata internally geared crank setup? For some reason I was under the impression Shimano had made such a thing at one time... anyone know anything about that?

The front-freewheel system of the Strida is basically a stock BMX freewheel connecting a proprietary BB spindle to a proprietary plastic chainring. It wouldn't be that hard to attach the same plastic chainring to a different freewheel of the same size. I'm pretty sure you can attach the chainring to an internally geared hub, for example. The problems would be fitting the hub into the BB of the Strida, and fitting crank arms to the axle of the hub. Wouldn't a machine shop be able to make the appropriate parts?