Garth,
There was a device called the fixed free hub available
back in the 1970's. It was made in England I think
somewhere in Gloucestershire. The first ones had some
problems with the hub axles breaking but they later
came with a high tensile axle. You used your own rear
hub freewheel threaded, replaced the axle with the
high tensile one supplied and operated the dog clutch
mechanism on the sprocket via a modified Sturmey
Archer trigger.
I thought they were wonderful but they were never that
popular.
Mick Butler Hunts. UK
> Has any manufacturer ever constructed a combination
> fixed rear hub that
> can also turn into a freewheeling single speed rear
> hub with handlebar
> type activation? This goes back to a conversation
> with a local that
> supported the value of such an animal. You would
> have the efficiency of
> a fixed, but at a moment's touch you could also
> freewheel down a hill
> or freewheel in traffic making caliper brakes easier
> to judge. I
> thought that such a device might have been designed
> at one time or
> another due to how simple it would have been to
> engineer, but I could
> not recall a discussion of it in any book or forum.
>
> Garth Libre in Miami Fl.
>
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Thats all for now. Keep those wheels spinning, in your memories if not still on the road. Be lucky Mick Butler Huntingdon UK.
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