New article, derailerless drivetrains
: How to choose frame and rear hub for a happy combination on a bicycle without derailers: a fixed gear, singlespeed, internal-gear hub, coaster brake bicycle — and how to adjust the chain tension. This article compiles information from the articles on fixed-gear and singlespeed bicycles. but adds to it and puts it in one place. Most issues with all derailerless drivetrains are the same, but there are important differences to note, there is new equipment to cover, and there are additional techniques to describe.
Tag: chains
Updates on chains and tandems
chains.html — substantial revisions.
tandem.html, tandem2.html — minor revisions.
John Allen’s updates to the site 12/2010-3/2011
March 13-22-25
headsets.html – major updates including instructions on adjustment of threaded headsets; added exploded diagrams; resized photos and added a photo of a “brinelled” bearing race. More to come — photos of disassembly/reassembly.
March 12
velos.html — added comments in favor of the Peugeot UO-8 frame.
March 11
tooltips/cartridge.html — added information about Velo Orange French-threaded bottom bracket.
February 18
raleigh26.html Minor update (fixed formatting of a list, and one spelling error)
home-drop.html — noted unavailability of commercial drop bolts, pointed to my own implementation, ran a spell check.
January 1
saddles.html — added information on saddle width. tire pressure and width, and suspension seatposts.
December 28
gears/index.html, gears/internal.html, braquets/index.html — I put the new Sturmey-Archer S2 into the calculators. SA used the same model number for a different hub in 1966.
December 27
deakins/lowgears.html
December 26
speeds.html — added information about SRAM 10-speed systems
k7.html — added information on 9 of 10 on 7
k7-7.shtml — updated to indicate cassettes now no longer available
gearing/index.html — added links to more pages about gearing
December 25
seatpost-sizes.html and seatpost-sizes-m-z.html,: major updates and added encoded link to the Webmasters’ new e-mail address.
December 24
brakes.html — updated to provide a guide to the other brakes pages.
