Re: Gear REDUCTION hub


elastoplastscavenger wrote:


and can someone explain why my old bike geared hub has 3 ratios but all
unis seem to have 2? surely 3 ratios is the norm for an epicyclic
gearbox?



firstly 'all' unis, well there's only one mass produced uni epicyclic
hub in the world, and the button shifting system would make it very
hard to select one of three gears, whereas two is relatively easy.


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