Interesting 2 wheel drive MTBs on CL
10-05-12, 06:28 PM
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I would to ride one just the experience. 2 wheel drive has been tried with dirt bikes and has never proved successful, except for the Rokon Trailbreaker. Looks like it would be tiring with all the extra friction in the cable drive.
How often is it that a spinning rear wheel limits what a mountain bike can do? And would a driven front wheel have any benefit?
How often is it that a spinning rear wheel limits what a mountain bike can do? And would a driven front wheel have any benefit?
10-05-12, 06:31 PM
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I don't think there's enough (if any) benefit to compensate for the added weight and possible fluid drag of the hydraulics and the fluid drives at each wheel.
A gear freak's dream I guess but not really making sense.....
A gear freak's dream I guess but not really making sense.....
10-05-12, 07:08 PM
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Didn't Schwinn make something simular but with a shaft drive?
10-05-12, 07:11 PM
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I wonder why they're rare.
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10-05-12, 07:22 PM
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Isnt that just a flex shaft drive set up, with gear hubs ?
If so, I would make an adapter so I could put a blender on the end of it !!
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10-08-12, 09:38 AM
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Things are rare for one of three reasons:
Not many were made- Faberge eggs
Not many survived- Mint condition muscle cars, Porsche Speedsters, MG TCs
No one wanted it in the first place- this thing
10-08-12, 10:09 AM
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I went mudd'en just sunday, and the slop was so thick the wheel was spinning.
be interesting to try it, but not buy it!
be interesting to try it, but not buy it!
10-08-12, 01:54 PM
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If you scroll bout 3/4 down this page you'll find the Profle Legacy 2 wheel drive from 91 which was a much higher quality bike base on the same concept. Poster makes the observation that when the wheels turned at different speeds, things tended to break. https://www.sonic.net/~ckelly/Seekay/...bike_stuff.htm
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I spun out in a race and had to pull off and let all the people behind me go by before I could get going again. Might have helped in that instance.
Until I flatted 1 mile later.
Until I flatted 1 mile later.
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