on 1/24/09 8:24 AM, PATRICK MOORE at [email protected] wrote: > http://sfcyclotouring.blogspot.com/search/label/chameleon%20cycles > > See, that's what I don't get about the stock QB drivetrain. If you are going > to bung the thing up with two cogs and two rings, why not just install an AW > or other IG hub, or else leave just one ring and install a rd with 3 cogs on a > cassette? Or do a Davis Phinney and have the 3 cogs but leave out the rd. > > If I ever buy QB, it will have One Ring and One Fixed Cog and One FW Cog. > Amen.
FWIW, my QB has a 14T fixed and a (stock) 18T FW. For my riding, I'm rarely in the 32/18 combo. But, the times when I've wanted it (mostly longer rides when some uphill began to bite), it came in very handy. As much as I love the simplicity of a 1 ring/1 cog fixed gear system, there's sort of no real reason to remove the small chainring. And with the long fork ends and parallel brake design, it makes it easy. - Jim -- Jim Edgar [email protected] ³Velvet pillows, safari parks, sunglasses: people have become woolly mice. They still have bodies that can walk for five days and four nights through a desert of snow, without food, but they accept praise for having taken a one-hour bicycle ride.² - Tim Krabbe, "The Rider" Cyclofiend Bicycle Photo Galleries - http://www.cyclofiend.com Current Classics - Cross Bikes Singlespeed - Working Bikes Send In Your Photos! - Here's how: http://www.cyclofiend.com/guidelines --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
