I was reading stuff about gears, chains, sprockets, looking for references about power loss etc. then I found this. The internal gear. I was familiar with these from planetary gears in boat transmissions, but had forgot about them. The inside gear. Now imagine a guni with an inside gear on each crank axle stub. This of course would mesh directly on a straight cut gear on the wheel axle. All of the advantages of my pedal backwards design, in terms of low power loss and drive train slop, and safety. Except now we can pedal forward normally. Cool huh ? OK, a pain to weld up, but you are good Pete. You could do this !😄
I was reading stuff about gears, chains, sprockets, looking for references about power loss etc. then I found this. The internal gear. I was familiar with these from planetary gears in boat transmissions, but had forgot about them. The inside gear. Now imagine a guni with an inside gear on each crank axle stub. This of course would mesh directly on a straight cut gear on the wheel axle. All of the advantages of my pedal backwards design, in terms of low power loss and drive train slop, and safety. Except now we can pedal forward normally. Cool huh ? OK, a pain to weld up, but you are good Pete. You could do this !😄
ohhh sweet but how will you keep "sludge" from building up in the internal gearing? (reasonably) i guess I can come up w/ a way or 2 and you could make it an oil pan if you wish
uhm i guess you can figure a way to connect the gears... put one gear between the 2 make it solid to a frame extension it will have a big Q factor tho :/
Maintanance ? It should last decades with just a wax and dust every few months. Sitting on the mantel, with the yellowing page of the Guiness book covered with yellowing plexiglass set out in front. Allow the curators in future centuries to worry about maintanance. It is for us, the living now, to create the worlds fastest uni. Few shall note , and none long remember what we may do here. The record, and the machine, craftsmen, and designers will not be mentioned. Unless we really bust the record !😄 Then our you tube video of some super pedaler going 30 + mph on a uni will stand for all involved as being just so cool😎 We are talking the record !😄 The need for excellent gear allignment, combined with the fact that this design mandates a minimum overdrive ratio of 3.5 to one, says this will be a special machine. The bonneville uni will be about as practical an everyday ride as other bonneville machines. Not at all !
