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Originally Posted by DDYTDY (Post 6146547)

I'm a big fan of the Eno hub. They can be found for as low as $129.99 USD + shipping. It sure beats screwing around.

I've built a horizontal dropout bike with a "Magic Gear" but was never happy with the gear or the chain tension.

The Eno was a good investment for me and my time not spent with a Mickey Mouse set up. I bought two of them.

The good thing about the ENO is that it solves a problem. The bad thing about the ENO is that it's built badly. The ENO has only two dinky little bearings, and a badly machined inner axle. For a comparison, the much cheaper Surly flip-flop hub has four excellent bearings and top-notch fabrication.
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o...s/ENO-guts.jpg

my friend has an eno on his cannondale conversion. so far so good but its only been a few months, but to its credit those months have been in some of the worst winter weather ive seen

I bought the Forte kit from Performancebikes.com. For my Cannondale R300 with Verticals, I didn't need the tensioner.
What did it for me was:
46t Chainring
16t Sproket
1 half link

I bought the kit because it came with the 16t sproket and silver spacers.

Happy Building!

Gilbert
Huntington Beach