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Mike Jacoubowsky
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> Now you've got me wondering if any bicycles have ever used a rear
> cluster with gears in a random or non-standard size order--say a
> 15-12-14-17-21. I can't think of any reason for such a strange
> cluster, but countless inventors have come up with weirder stuff.
A slant parallelogram rear derailleur wouldn't like to see a group of gears
like that. It makes an assumption that each adjacent gear inward is bigger
than the one preceding it.
That doesn't mean that I've never built up a set like that just for fun.
I'll bet many of us have.
--Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReactionBicycles.com
> cluster with gears in a random or non-standard size order--say a
> 15-12-14-17-21. I can't think of any reason for such a strange
> cluster, but countless inventors have come up with weirder stuff.
A slant parallelogram rear derailleur wouldn't like to see a group of gears
like that. It makes an assumption that each adjacent gear inward is bigger
than the one preceding it.
That doesn't mean that I've never built up a set like that just for fun.
I'll bet many of us have.
--Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReactionBicycles.com