if you thought derailers were ugly...
01-03-06 | 09:14 PM
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if you thought derailers were ugly...
01-03-06 | 09:16 PM
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Originally Posted by hyperRevue
That shifter is f'ing rad.
01-03-06 | 09:17 PM
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Originally Posted by hyperRevue
That shifter is f'ing rad.
01-03-06 | 09:19 PM
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It needs a pair of these:
https://www.treehugger.com/files/2005...no_air_hub.php
https://www.treehugger.com/files/2005...no_air_hub.php
01-03-06 | 10:00 PM
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love the intake cooling fins on the chain ring... but I think they are facing the wrong direction in order to draw-in air to cool the obviously over heating chain and BB from hauling all that weight
01-03-06 | 10:07 PM
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WTF does "Pomtron Front Free Uniglide ->" mean?!? 
First person to explain wins a dollar. And it's not on Sheldon's sit, i already checked.
First person to explain wins a dollar. And it's not on Sheldon's sit, i already checked.
01-03-06 | 11:16 PM
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01-03-06 | 11:22 PM
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Positron -> shimano's early attempt at indexed shifting. Indexing was in the derailleur, not the shifter.
Front Free -> the freewheel is built into the bottom bracket instead of the, well, freewheel. so you could shift while coasting.
Uniglide -> uniglide. Cassette precursor to Hyperglide. among other things, instead of a cassette lockring, the smallest cog was the lockring.
where's my dollar?
Front Free -> the freewheel is built into the bottom bracket instead of the, well, freewheel. so you could shift while coasting.
Uniglide -> uniglide. Cassette precursor to Hyperglide. among other things, instead of a cassette lockring, the smallest cog was the lockring.
where's my dollar?
01-03-06 | 11:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Shadow_Ryder
i think it says "Positron Front Free Uniglide", even so, wtf??
Front Free...dunno, the front hub is a freewheel?
01-03-06 | 11:26 PM
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paging DynaRyder, your new bike is on ebay...
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01-03-06 | 11:27 PM
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positrons are antimatter, so if you have a "positron front-free uniglide" system, it means that the electrons in the atoms of the molecules of air that are going thru the hightech FF turbo fin can't front when they collide with the positrons. see, the positrons call 'em on their **** then they annihilate them and E=mC(2) tells us that their mass must be converted into energy. the resulting gamma ray photons propel the bike forward in a single direction (i.e. uniglide).
it's really too technical. i'm sure homeland security's gonna have that auction taken down faster than the thread on the anally friendly spoke card.
it's really too technical. i'm sure homeland security's gonna have that auction taken down faster than the thread on the anally friendly spoke card.
01-03-06 | 11:41 PM
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Positron : Icky early indexed shifting.
Front free : fixed at the hub, freewheeling occurs at the bottom bracket.
Uniglide : early cog profiling to make shifting happier.
Combine them, and whaddya got?!
Front free : fixed at the hub, freewheeling occurs at the bottom bracket.
Uniglide : early cog profiling to make shifting happier.
Combine them, and whaddya got?!
01-04-06 | 12:40 AM
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Originally Posted by visitordesign
positrons are antimatter, so if you have a "positron front-free uniglide" system, it means that the electrons in the atoms of the molecules of air that are going thru the hightech FF turbo fin can't front when they collide with the positrons. see, the positrons call 'em on their **** then they annihilate them and E=mC(2) tells us that their mass must be converted into energy. the resulting gamma ray photons propel the bike forward in a single direction (i.e. uniglide).
it's really too technical. i'm sure homeland security's gonna have that auction taken down faster than the thread on the anally friendly spoke card.
it's really too technical. i'm sure homeland security's gonna have that auction taken down faster than the thread on the anally friendly spoke card.
A totally bogus, but way cooler explanation in my book. You won. Paypal on the way.
01-04-06 | 12:48 AM
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Originally Posted by wasted weasel
love the intake cooling fins on the chain ring... but I think they are facing the wrong direction in order to draw-in air to cool the obviously over heating chain and BB from hauling all that weight
Last edited by spider-man; 01-04-06 at 12:57 AM.