GENTLEMEN... we do thank you ever so much for all your assistance, story and comments .. the site you provide shecky tells it all, eh .. we are canadian and as such have also have a couple of those sachs/torpedo hub bikes .. they were much more common here than the bendix models .. unfortunately it didnt mention anything about the gearing of those hubs... grrrrrrrrrrr .. oh well such is life i guess .. if anyone knows something about those hubs, they could post it here, huh .. and THANKS AGAIN fellas!

ps:are there many 2speed kick-back balloon tire bikes around as we are interested in same