Re: Can you disable the freewheel in a cassette hub?


jobst.brandt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Martin Skank writes:
>
> >> I know you can take the pawls out of a real freewheel - can you do
> >> the same to cassettes?
>
> > There are no pawls in a cassette. The ratchet mechanism is in the
> > freehub body.
>
> What you mean no ratchet. What do you think goes click-click when you
> backpedal? Hugi used a face spline that went CLACK-CLACK and that
> piece of hardware can be replaced by a solid block to make a multi
> speed fixed cluster... or for that matter left out to make a freely
> rotating sprocket cluster. With Pawls removed, any freewheel can be
> made to rotate in both directions. I take it this is to be a
> multi-speed idler or the like? Sounds odd. Let's hear more about this.
>
> Jobst Brandt

jb (the real jb), this "Martin Skank" is being pedantic. If you refer
to the assemblage of cogs as a cassette, then yes there are no pawls in
it. What I'm after is a freely rotating assemblage of cogs, and the
outboard bearing of a cassette hub may be an advantage.

Yes, it's for a multi-speed idler, for an in-line tricycle.

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