Fixie for lefties
04-15-20, 08:44 AM
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My mind just lit up with the idea of a dual drive fixie using a flip flop hub. Right and left hand drive so you can go hard in reverse too!
04-15-20, 10:04 AM
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If they have different gear ratios, you can conveniently move the chain between left and right to shift gears.
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04-15-20, 11:06 AM
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This might be possible using an old tandem hub with a freewheel thread on one side and Arai brake thread on the other side. The donor tandem could also give you the left side crank
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04-16-20, 07:03 AM
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Here in Cambodia there are tons of step thru bikes with a drum/band type brake.
like this, they screw on like a freewheel.
on the left side.
like this, they screw on like a freewheel.
on the left side.
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04-16-20, 09:46 AM
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How many of us have done the wood-grain wallpaper thing after having seen Sheldon do it 20yrs ago?
I know I did.
I know I did.
04-16-20, 08:28 PM
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Actually, I missed the woodgrain shelf paper thing on Sheldon Brown, even after surfing there for... what... 25 years? So this ^^^^^^^ was my first glimpse.
04-16-20, 10:15 PM
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Ed Litton LH Drive Track Bike
A number of years ago I walked into Ed Litton's shop and was taken aback!
He had just finished assembling a LH drive track bike that he built for one of the hand made bike shows. I think that he used Campy C-Record tandem cranks with the chainring on the left! It looked natural!
I was just musing about left coast - right coast in the US. Perhaps a slight east - west Coriolis Effect like the direction water swirls going down a drain in the northern and southern hemispheres...
To digress more.... Dagen H or Högertrafikomläggningen ("The right-hand traffic diversion"), was the day, September 3rd, 1967 (3 September 1967) on which all the traffic in Sweden switched from driving on the left hand side of the road to the right!
It was a "cluster" event but only 157 minor accidents were reported, of which only 32 involved personal injuries and no fatalities.
Reasonable explanation as to why do some countries drive on the wrong side and others on the right?
https://www.worldstandards.eu/cars/driving-on-the-left/
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He had just finished assembling a LH drive track bike that he built for one of the hand made bike shows. I think that he used Campy C-Record tandem cranks with the chainring on the left! It looked natural!
I was just musing about left coast - right coast in the US. Perhaps a slight east - west Coriolis Effect like the direction water swirls going down a drain in the northern and southern hemispheres...
To digress more.... Dagen H or Högertrafikomläggningen ("The right-hand traffic diversion"), was the day, September 3rd, 1967 (3 September 1967) on which all the traffic in Sweden switched from driving on the left hand side of the road to the right!
It was a "cluster" event but only 157 minor accidents were reported, of which only 32 involved personal injuries and no fatalities.
Reasonable explanation as to why do some countries drive on the wrong side and others on the right?
https://www.worldstandards.eu/cars/driving-on-the-left/
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Fixed:
So the Swedish experience must have been the inspiration for Gerry Anderson & Co, who made the British TV series UFO in the late '60s / early '70s. It took place in "the future" of 1980, 81, etc. The earthbound parts of the program predictively depicted a UK that had converted to driving on the right by 1980.
So the Swedish experience must have been the inspiration for Gerry Anderson & Co, who made the British TV series UFO in the late '60s / early '70s. It took place in "the future" of 1980, 81, etc. The earthbound parts of the program predictively depicted a UK that had converted to driving on the right by 1980.
04-18-20, 04:48 PM
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Thanks for that article, @verktyg. There were many details I didn't know.
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