That brakeless kickback hub looks great. I'd like to be able to take the coaster brake out of my Sachs Automatic. I prefer to be able to backpedal to reorient my pedals at stops, and the brake is like 10 oz...
Philip Philip Williamson www.biketinker.com On Nov 21, 12:21 pm, Doug Van Cleve <[email protected]> wrote: > This would be super cool on a bike like you > describe:http://www.sturmey-archer.com/products/hubs/cid/7/id/57. You would > need > front and rear brakes, but that is the way the RBW SS/fixie frames are > designed, no? I am not sure this hub is available yet, but the coaster > brake version is so I'm sure it will become availble soon(ish). > > Doug > > On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Thomas Lynn Skean < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, all! > > > Does anyone have any experience with the sorta new Sturmey-Archer duomatic > > hub? If so... Are they of reasonable quality (as opposed to being a novelty > > or a fashion-gimmick or something intended for a department-store bike)? If > > you have no experience but would venture an opinion, would you *expect* them > > to be of reasonable quality? (I know nothing about the modern Sturmey-Archer > > company or about low-gear-count IGHs at all.) > > > Could you imagine one on a Quickbeam/SimpleOne? > > > I like the idea of a singlespeed bike. But I expect that with my weight > > (~240ish) and given that I have already flirted with slight knee pain, > > riding a singlespeed bike very much would not be my favorite thing (or the > > smartest thing) to do. Over time, I expect that launches would challenge my > > knees with any gearing that I could contemplate cruising in. I understand > > that the SimpleOne is designed to be more than just a singlespeed. But I > > know me; I really can't see me hopping off the bike and moving the rear > > wheel whenever I needed to exploit that fact. > > > However, I've done some gearing arithmetic and have concluded that I might > > be happy with the two-speed duomatic hub. I could imagine launching in "low" > > (somewhat carefully) and then cruising in "high" (somewhat spinningly). But > > the "carefully" and "Spinningly" parts would be generally "good things to > > do" sometimes anyway. And, though I am in now way tired of biking the way I > > do now, I am on the lookout for ways to "mix it up" so as to keep riding as > > long as possible (think numbers of years, not distance per ride). I'm > > thinking the duomatic might even prove a "gateway hub" to actual singlespeed > > riding (theory being that if I keep riding in general, and sometimes a > > two-speed in particular, I'll continue to get healthier and become less > > vulnerable to knee pain as a result). I'm not remotely considering doing > > away with multi-speed riding (why would I leave my home in Hillborne > > heaven?). > > > I've had uniformly bad experiences with multi-speed IGHs in the past (7- > > and 8-speed Shimanos of 5+ years ago). But I'm open to the idea that, with > > the duomatic being a two-speed and with IGHs having perhaps improved as > > they've become more popular in the mainstream since then, it might not give > > me problems like those hubs of yore. > > > Any thoughts? > > > Yours, > > Thomas Lynn Skean > > P.S. > > One possibility I'm considering is a completely cable-less SimpleOne with > > the coaster-brake version of the duomatic. That's the way I often rode bikes > > growing up; one rear brake, one rear gear. Though there'd be complexity > > hidden in the hub, the rest of the bike would be as simple as it gets. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
