Re: {GGI-B'lore} Shaft-drive bicycles?

[Deepa Mohan]

Hi Farhad,

My husband Mohan ordered a shaft-drive bike for himself from TI in Ambattur, Chennai...but I don't think they are available in the market.

Cheers, Deepa.

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Farhad <farhadt...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi

Are shaft-drive bikes available in India? Was just thinking about the
bicycles that are MADE in India and realized that we are way behind as
far as technology is concerned.

[Nalla P Konar]

Interesting.. Never knew such technology exists :)

For benefit of others, more details at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaft-driven_bicycle

Rgds,
Nalla.

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[Arvind Ganesh]

Without being limited to what's available in India, are there any good shaft-drive bikes? If anyone knows one, I'd love to find out about it.
A while back I considered buying a used Biomega AMS http://moderndna.com/rides/biomega-ams-bicycle/
While researching the model, I found that reviews weren't great - here is an extract from bikehugger
"The shaft drive is a love it or hate it thing. We appreciated the functionality of it and nearly immediately discovered the downside. Zero maintenance, looks cool — great — but massive friction, speed limitations, and a gear range that, hobbled by frictional losses, isn’t going to get you up any hill."

I used to own a motorcycle with a shaft drive and never had anything but praise for that (low maintenance, worked great), so I would expect it should work for bikes too. However, I'm no mechanical engineer, maybe there are limitations on a bike.

Deepa, are you saying your husband has a shaft-drive bike? How does he like it? If you can share more details, I'd appreciate it. Details such as model, cost, ordering process would be useful.

-Arvind

[Sudhir P]

I remember someone posting links to a (firang) bike manufacturer who made these, with shimano internal hubs having a triple cahinring-ed roadbike-ish range.... The maintenance free part of it is very lucrative alright. But apparently, its a nightmare to fix flats on them, as they have no quick-release kinda thing

-sud

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