At 66 with four bikes plus the tandem I don't have many bike purchases left in me, but hub shift suggests IGH to me, which brings up my ideal winter bike:
Rolhoff rear hub; gates carbon belt; Schmidt front hub; Ti frame; room for 42 mm studded tires and full fenders. I don't see this bike coming from a desert in California! Dang i wish this site didn't take so long to load... what gives? I can load the cached version or the /discussion version... but the basic .groups/rbw-owners-bunch takes almost 2 minutes on a decent cable connection with Safari & lots of spare memory. Gotta go out for a ride on my new White pedals.. michael On Jun 19, 5:47 pm, James Warren <jimcwar...@earthlink.net> wrote: > HS must stand for "hub shift". The big clue for me is the statement that you > can't use more than one chainring on it. At first I thought, "what, you can't > clamp on a front derailleur?" But once "hub shift" was suggested, I realized > that a hub shift with no rear derailleur hanger would make it hard to have > something that would take up the slack required when switching between > multiple chainrings. So hub shift with no rear hanger fits the clues given. > > I like having a 135-rear-spacing bike that has a derailleur hanger, because I > have the option of doing one of the new internally geared hubs and could > still use it with multiple gears up front. > > -Jim W. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
