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Inside the Honda Gearbox
We shot this at the Worlds in Fort William, luckily just before they melted all the bikes down!!!
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- Date Posted
- Jan 15, 2008 at 2:33Jan 15, 2008
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Fort William, United Kingdom
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tommymay
(Jan 23, 2008 at 8:47)
all that and its a regular shifter....
i taught there would be little gremlins inside or something
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thats awesome - i don't know what i thought was going to be in there but i didnt think it would be so simple. gearbox bikes will be the norm in like 5 years time for sure
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Thats cause this is the second one they made, the first generation were far more elaborate and had infinite adjustment, this is just a derailer in a box.
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O god yeah this is far superior to derailers. I really want to know what the first generations were like too.
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@colincolin: 2018 now and theres a better chance of 3.0 tires becoming a standard than gearbox taking off.
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wow all that secrecy and all it is is a normal derailiur... that is why they were keeping it a secrete
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no what they are keeping secrete is how it can change gears without pedaling and while pedaling backwards
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Probably just a fixed gear on the back wheel...
Trials bike with front freewheel do this already, as long as the bike is moving you can shift gears.
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that looks so prime, i've always wondered why they always had the derail in a spot where it can be smacked around and so bare to the world now with this thing hopefully we'll have to adjust them less
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its like drum roll please...*lift case*....."eh? your having us on arnt you?????????"
oh wot i disappointment, i wanted it to be some thing magical, like a rabbit would jump out or summert, but no
i had been trying to work it out for a few years, now im very disappointed, still and shame they melted them all, did they melt all of them?
oh wot i disappointment, i wanted it to be some thing magical, like a rabbit would jump out or summert, but no
i had been trying to work it out for a few years, now im very disappointed, still and shame they melted them all, did they melt all of them?
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from what ive heard its a cover up. this may not be true but i believe it is, honda? who make cars and motorbikes could surely come up with alot better/lighter/more efficent technology. i beleive this is a cover up but thats only my opion.
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classic example of how the bike industry gets in the way of itself.. this is an easy solution for big name manufacturers to pursue and develop (honda did not take long to figure this out) and yet they refuse, and pump out marginal improvements (12,13 speed derailluers, we dont need more gears just more range) but they dont. They want to keep the large piece of metal floating about on the side of your bike to smash and have to be bought again and again...
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=O How did you not know honda made bikes? *GASPS*
they melted them down because they stopped running their dh racing team as apparantly there wasnt any money to be made in it...so they therefore had no need for them so melted them...
plus i doubt that their idea can be coppied as it was more than likely patented to them ?=/
they melted them down because they stopped running their dh racing team as apparantly there wasnt any money to be made in it...so they therefore had no need for them so melted them...
plus i doubt that their idea can be coppied as it was more than likely patented to them ?=/
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All you need to do to get around a patent is change one small detail.
IIRC theres 1 bike out there somewhere being ridden and showcased... but it got stolen or something a while back?I just caught a glimpse of the story in a mag
IIRC theres 1 bike out there somewhere being ridden and showcased... but it got stolen or something a while back?I just caught a glimpse of the story in a mag