[Closed] Ever feel like you don't have enough gears

I thought tourers were supposed to be simple and reliable?

looks to have the same (if not slightly worse) range as a normally geared 3x tourer/mtb too...

So much awsome for so little money.

I approve.

4x3x10 = 120 (may of course be duplicates)

Pointless

I wish I had a harder gear on the SS when I spin out on the flat

Purple ano and yellow crud, brake booster and rim's. So much going on for so little effect, I approve.

Some cargo trikes use setups like this - cassettes plus hub gears plus multiple chainrings.

Didn't Sheldon brown have some bikes set up like this?

I tried to look up that hub to calculate what the lower gear ratio would be. However all I can find for Shimano 3 speed hubs suggest that it has a ratio of greater than 1:1 in low gear, which would render the whole thing totally pointless.

Citron rims! Bloody hell.

I tried to look up that hub to calculate what the lower gear ratio would be. However all I can find for Shimano 3 speed hubs suggest that it has a ratio of greater than 1:1 in low gear, which would render the whole thing totally pointless.

That's hilarious 🙂

A Sturmey Archer three speed has 1:1 in the middle, with the other two being up/down a third. That would be more useful.

Nice idea!
Most of my bikes are single speed, I find them sufficient.

"CUSTOM BUILT DEORE QUAD CHAINSET 26-32-36-44"

Because the standard 22-32-44 would have been rubbish, yeah?

[quote=miketually ]Some cargo trikes use setups like this - cassettes plus hub gears plus multiple chainrings.
Didn't Sheldon brown have some bikes set up like this?

That was my immediate thought - though he was an amateur with only 63 gears:
https://www.sheldonbrown.com/org/otb.html

1x10 and very rarely wish I had more gears except on very fast tarmac descents in which case that isn't really proper mountain biking

The ultimate just-in-case-of-failure gear setup?

Even if both the rear mech and the hub gear fail, you still have 4 ratios to choose from at the front!

Where would one find purple ano cable ends.
Asking for a friend.

I rode a recumbent yesterday that had 81 gears.
It was too much IMO. just massive overkill

FYI it was a standard 3x9 setup with a SRAM DD3 hub.

how do you customise a chainset and mech to take a 4th chainring?

If memory serves, Shimano made a 4 ring crankset in the mid 90's, though it was at the cheap end of their group sets.

Yeah, a lad next door to me when I was a kid had one, 24speed 4x6.

We were proper jealous

so near, yet so far:

rohloff x cassette x chainset x hammerschmidt

= 14 x 11 x 3 x 2 = 924 gears FTW

Can you run hammerschmidt with a normal chainset? Or are we talking a 2 chain setup?

Or...

Rohloff x eagle cassette x pinion. 2352 gears. May have some overlap. Shifter locations may be interesting...

Needs more retro direct.

My dad has a recumbent trike with 81, useful for running a reasonably close block and getting the low end you need to winch it's ungainly bulk up hills (remembering you can't get out of the saddle and honk).

I seem to remember all 3 hub gears were lower than 1:1, but it was Sachs or SRAM. I will be sending him a link to that bike.

That's not a mid-90s cheap chainset though, it's more modern than that. My first thought was a chainring bolted to to the outer ring using the chainguard fixing holes.

4th chainring adapters

http://abundantadventures.com/quads.html

and then what? standard mech with limit screw way out and an unindexed gearshifter?

Ever feel like you don't have enough gears

I love that there are people putting together builds like this though. 😀