This what happens when we have too much free time. It's a Grand Cru 50.4bcd crank set up with four chainrings. In this case it's a twin half-step. This may have possibilities, instead of running a 1x5 on your city bike, you could run a 4x1. Or how about a 4x11--so many gears? Boggles the mind.
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Seems to me you should use this with a Rohloff -- 50-47 gives you 28 about equally spaced gears (6% gaps going down). 50-48-46 gives you 42 and 3% gaps. To get 4 without using fractional teeth, I think you need a tiny cog in the rear and 35-34-33-32 in front (13T cog in the rear, sub-100kg rider).
ReplyDeleteI concur. You have too much time on your hands.
ReplyDeleteThis calls for a Sturmey Archer 3-speed cassette hub + a 10 speed cassette (11, if you can fit it on there). 120 mostly-useless gear ratios!
ReplyDeleteSheldon lives!
ReplyDeleteAlex Singer did a similar thing.
ReplyDeletePhil Brown
At the suggestion of my engineer brother, I put a double chainwheel on a bike that has an 8-speed Alfine hub with a chain tensioner. It works surprisingly well, giving 16 usable gears in perfect half-step, while retaining the ability to shift while coasting or standing still.
ReplyDeleteBut does it plane?
ReplyDeleteMy DaVinci tandem has a quad crank. Low gear is 24/34 and high gear is 60/11. I call that outer chain ring "HyperDrive"
ReplyDeleteI put a quad crankset on our tandem for a while - the chainline is quite wide so there was room to put a second inner ring on the 74 mm BCD mounts. We then had 24-32-42-54 with a 12-28 10-speed cassette. The front deraileur only JUST had enough range to get the chain to move to the inner and outer rings, but it sometimes took a bit of effort and timing. We've since gone back to a more conventional setup with 26-39-52 rings and an 11-32 cassette.
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