Ignoring the basically arbitrary regulations of the International Cycling Union for what is “supposed a bicycle” (at least if you need to run), in fact, there are reasons why the global bicycle has standardized around some portions and conceptions municipalities. Especially with respect to the transmission, Almaxixum, all motorcycles use a chain, a loose wheel and a change if there are gears to reposition because those portions are cheap, reliable and easy to repair. But if it is outside the network in a position like Africa, even maximum trust motorcycles do not cut it absolutely. This is the reason why an organization called World Bichycle Relief designed and built the buffalo bicycle, and The Last adds a device with a single wheel.
Youtuber cycling [Berm Peak] takes us through the design of this motorcycle in its newest video that is also connected below. Buffalo’s original motorcycle was incredibly physically potent and lasting, with a rear grid designed to send up to two hundred pounds and all on the bicycle capable of being fixed with a little more than an adjustable adjustment key. The new loose wheel adds a device for the bicycle, which makes it less difficult to use in mountainous terrain, but to add a confusing and difficult to fix the change, the loose wheel adds a channel for the moment, and the driver It can move between the two gears through the pedaling slightly backwards, then the pedals participate again.
Of course, some commitments will have to have been made here. Although the new loose wheel is almost as powerful as the old one, it is a bit more complex. However, they can be replaced quite gently with undeniable equipment and are also small, affordable and undeniable to send. The bicycle also had to leave the original Thrace brake, however, the new edge brakes are a flavor that is also undeniable and also meant that the motorcycle also received an update of the wheels. Bicycles such as those are incredibly vital in the positions where cars are rare or unaffordable, or where mandatory giant infrastructure for them are not reliable or non -existent. We have noticed other examples of motorcycles such as those that are also being put in paintings in positions like India.
Thanks to [Keith] on advice!
Interesting idea. I wonder to what extent two channels will work: you want two precise lengths, they will extend and wear differently, and faster or faster a chain will be launched.
And this plastic protector? How long will it last? Fortunately, it is not critical to operate, affordable and easy to replace.
I became looked at everything before my message, which caused my question. If you have missed the problem, it’s about you.
The total rear wheel slips to the chain tension. The chain closet is made of metal.
Yes, that of the rear can be metal, however, I take the apparent in the video sticker: the chain protector on the tray / chain wheel in the crank
It is plastic. It is made of steel with a mat.
This does not seem to me to solve the 2 channels that will have to stay in time: a sliding wheel can gently tend the 1 Inflexible without foxyarray once the 1 chain has been tense if channel 2 is still loose, it cannot do anything about it. I will have to look at this in more detail to perceive how it is destined for paintings, maybe there is a foxy to face a more worn chain / fans, which means that the two will not get adequate tension.
Go at 6:40 a. m. , they simply played with the proportions and discovered a commitment. The chains have the same tension.
Yes, I looked at it now, and that does not fill me with confidence in its longevity, its chain and its eagle wear, and in this type of situations probably bad and this smaller channel does not appear, so it is far from jumping over its al principle. I can see an undeniable chain tension complement performed relatively soon as if I used its bicycle lots for a few years in difficult situations. To supply this adjustable voltage.
But perhaps the two chains and the gables are used enough to be literally reliable, and even if it is a bit terrible, the portions are quite undeniable and cheap. So undeniable literally maintain.
I was surprised that they did not come with a type of tension in the chain in the loose chain. Even a gross without spring would have been easily usable in the field. You have to wait for equivalent wear, or more wear on the strictest channel.
Indeed, though as the parts are simple and cheap I guess as long as it lasts long enough to be worth having the second chain that isn’t a bad thing – on such rugged terrarin its certianly far more simple, durable and repariable than any other gearing system I’m aware of. Plus any trouble pull off the bad chain and adjust the rear wheel to tension the one you need – back to be single gear, but at least that gets you home without as much hassle walking the bike (I did that once, though in this case it really was carrying on the shoulder didn’t want to risk pushing it after a vandal got to my bike at the train station as it really wasn’t fun, can’t recall if that was the bike with suspension or not but either way a steel frame as I’ve always gone in for durable and cheap).
I guess you start less than another link?
Most of them feel that they have been designed through other people who do not walk by bicycle. This chain will break well in front of the other components.
How many efforts did they remove from the change to make the motorcycle repairable with an adjustable adjustment key? I love seeing them replace a chain with just an adjustable adjustment key. Without cheating with universal links. These are the lowest chain, so I would ask to break again.
The deviators break. I saw him arrive at Arriveray. Maybe 15 times above several hundred motorcycles in which I have worked.
Compare this with . . . 40 + channels I broke?
Can I imagine that all the channels were adjustable? Do you know when you get to one of the links and the spindle comes out?
I did this in which the identification uses screw pilots with a gradually larger flat edge, a hammer and a wooden block. Locate an external link, I would place it in the wood block (it is basically to protect the floor, the external identifier, it will do so in the asphalt) will confuse the small screw force between the plates and do it with a hammer, go to the next force of motive of motive And repeat, when it ended with the third, the plaque is free. To face the process, push it with pliers until you click, then put the finish to keep it together. You can use a small shooting hammer for that, but I made a personalized tool when cutting an excessive screw motive and putting a dimp in the apartment at the end. This would reject the link and deform the spindle finish. The master links are intentionally for rookies.
If you have an important link, you want a Breeze tool, which is a specialized tool that is useful for your other, which opposes the design point of objectives of those bicycles.
As a bicycle mechanic, you know that the chains at a single speed are thicker and durable than the chains at several speeds. He also knows that it is trivial to replace the chain without breaking it at a single speed, especially those that have an opposite “horizontal abandonment” like this. Slide the wheel forward, remove the chain, place the new one and drag the wheel in the mounting position.
These are not Fred motorcycles for triathletes. They are tanks and are sold at retail points of branches in Africa and the manufacturer knows precisely what they are doing. I established the last style throughout Lake Naivasha a few years ago, and it was great.
Are you a type of fifth -dimension Euclidean geometry, it doesn’t matter? The chains pass / through the rear triangle on a motorcycle that has no motorcycle oscillating arms. You have to break the chain to be absolutely bicycle. Abandons do not have an effect on the situation.
Loosen the abandonments, push the center forward. Dress the front soil chain, this provides enough complicit to be thrown around the axis. I don’t know a boy. It is easy. If you have to break the chains to get a wheel, you are wrong.
I could go up for some of the other comments here. I went up to Street BMX for a long time, not all channels are created. I bought a specialized channel (not the brand) where there are no internal ties against external, everyone starts outside the doors and inside, they have never damaged this canalaray . . . He broke all the other channels in all the few walks. And it is through the manufacture of supports to Gable. If you need to locate what you are breaking all the time, locate a BMX pilot on the street. We break everything.
There is also something to say to do your bolts very well. Without adequate tension, everything will be folded and hid. On the contrary, too much torque and their bearings will break and the screws will be torn off. The quality apparatus makes a big difference when the living tar of a machine expires. Specialized points of sale such as Fat Nutz make special devices only for other people who use and abuse their bicycles.
OP spoke in particular to pass a chain without breaking it. Do you know advice?
The total query is a red sand because you can freeze the old chain literally when you retire. Leave it and beat it with a rock or something. I am sure that you can stop your adjustable adjustable adjustment key in a way or turn it until the pins stand out.
Have you seen the video? I bet you have it, you prefer to be busy writing a diatribute for 10 m than to see a video of 10 m: Fapelm:
But how many motorcycles are running on so ruthless ground with so much weight and cannot be maintained and washed after each use? There is an explanation why motorcycles that pass through many abuses do not use a change.
I depend.
We had motorcycles loaded with bags and we used to drive in a cross continent. Lisbon to Beijing if I correctly.
But approximately part of our motorcycles belonged to the 15 -year -olds who fix everything with a hammer and a prone vice, and the salty air here eats everything. Especially jumps of 20 ″ BMX, Flatland and part-tuyaux or Dirt.
We have to obtain stainless metal and pack our bearings in sea fats because young people continued to build ramps at the end of the batteries and jump their motorcycles in the ocean.
VI benches in a damaged in the middle because the child jumped into the ocean in the fall, hit him with a hose and then put the motorcycle on the garage for the winter with a complete misunderstanding of salt water.
I only believe that the chain will be the biggest challenge in their bicycles, and they have not resolved this challenge at all.
I worked in a bicycle store in my youth. The only chain I shattered was the one that I checked a bicycle after another mechanic repaired. The chain was defective, but it only told me that it was why I didn’t need to check it. It is not pleasant. I traveled more than 100,000 miles and only needed my chain tool along the way. When I was in the motorcycles forum that was now missing, it has become transparent that Wipermann had a serious challenge with a fascinating device that descends the appearance plates in the assembly, and other people broke the Wipermann chains before even reheating the first Walk in a new channel. . I discovered a damaged channel on the road once, and stopped and turned to know what guy was. Yes, it was a wippermann. I guess they have now resolved the challenge.
I do not know what “Africa” intends to mean in the author’s brain because it covers more than 50 incredibly other countries that are not yet outside the network that were born and had spent a lot of time in this continent. You are less difficult to locate a position to fix your motorcycle there than almost in Europe or the United States.
And through repair, I mean ordering a new component to exchange and call it one day, I mean the portions of combination welding or repair the cameras and air tires.
Each giant city in Africa has a market where you can and has repaired almost everything that is mechanical / electronic.
Meanwhile, in Europe, other people will throw microwaves, laptops and washing machines at the time they will listen to a noise.
“During this time . . . . . . . . . the second, they listen to a noise”
Amen brother. It is a ridiculous shame. Repair is for the surroundings and people. With notable exceptions, of course.
Although there is a war of words on this bicycle, it is only to say that even help is something positive, especially with many other entities that make the most productive to discourage solution and longevity.
I saw buffalo motorcycles (the last model, east) in Eldoret, if it helps.
I am almost that the company that produces these motorcycles knows precisely how Africa looks and how the fixing infrastructure is there.
The last time I heard a microwave noise, the magnetron has exhausted. It would have been illegal for me to fix it, because I am not a qualified device repair technician. Without forgetting that I had no spare magnetrones for this model. It is possible that you eliminate a magnetron from some other microwave and cross the hands that works, however, the effects would have been unpredictable and dangerous.
There are intelligent reasons why other people do not pass internal electronics in the sector.
And for the value of hiring a random type technician outside the street in the market that is not more qualified than me, I can buy two new microwave ovens.
I prefer not to be forced to spend all my cash when paying other people to do things to cause more disorders than I would have done, so it is a shame that you have to deal with that. Butarray microwaves with a rotation tray can slide the tray and scream, and it is really nothing to throw everything. In addition, it deserves to save things from anything that is sometimes not repairable. And while other people are causing many microwave disorders, they are not yet unpredictable, other people go without taking the time to perceive everything about what they do.
If it is only the Magnetron who abandoned the ghost, a quick look at Ebay Alibaba Amazon will give him the smart spare part. And remain in the brain that stupidity kills
My mother’s bicycle at the end of the 1960s / early 1970s has a two -speed rear medium that replaced the speed through the backward pedaling. Use a single chain and, from what I remember, it is rarely mandatory to maintain. Why would two channels be better, exactly?
My father’s bicycle in the 1970s is the same. Very reliable because it is still daily. Brake paintings through pedaling back. He also had some motorcycles like this. I would say that it is a very physically powerful and undeniable design.
Here in Finland, they sell motorcycles that have 2 genes with general brakes. Possibly there would be a license / patent challenge that prohibits the use of a similar or too dear license design. These centers can handle anything, but they are more complex to repair, they would not be paint at all and when they break. In my expression motorcycles that had the children, they were called “grandmother motorcycles”
Called grandmother bicycles here, with the three-speed center through Sturmey-Archer. We have one of more than 50, bought for a teenager, and now is the grandmother 🙂 still works (the motorcycle and grandmother).
The two channels are a terrible design. The key to bicycle solution is not unusual pieces. The addition of exclusive pieces to your motorcycle makes it less fixed, whatever the concept of each individual component. In addition, no one needs to keep two channels. The chains wear out. Yes, single speed chains are thicker, but they also wear out.
Yes, this requires tools, even specialized, to paintings on a “regular” bicycle. But they are not giant, expensive or numerous. Regular motorcycles are very capable and give markets what they want the motorcycles they have would be a much higher investment.
People need to use Western ingenuity to solve African disorders, but it is the other way around. Disorders found through Africa are created through Western ingenuity, are not resolved through them.
I perceive his complaints, but in this case, it is an organization specialized in the problem. When I look at myself, I hope two channels bring less temporarily than a chain. In addition, if the chain breaks, you can motivate in a store to fix it. Instead of walking there or abandoning the dream of mobility.
The two channel formula results in the simplest solution and, therefore, is intelligent. If you need to help, I am sure they will pay attention. The challenge is that it depends on you to build a bicycle with a gear replacement mechanism that is more reliable than that.
A little like the organization for the OLPC?
OPC would not have been stored through the best laptops. But the undeniable strength of the pedal can be a wonderful merit in the drawing of a cart in hand, and I think there are conditions in which two wheels can pass somewhere, but 3 or more may not, and conscientiously balance a device of a device of a device of Two overloaded wheels is not the end of the world.
I also prefer to have a water resistant solar clock (so that it can last a long time without service, it is too complex to serve) instead of a sun watch. If and only if it were well built for decades, I also believe that a type of sun directed to the sun would be intelligent: if someone were busy all day, there is a way of reading the free night can only locate useful. Of course, there are many other situations, those are just things that would have been traditionally wonderful, it is not the same those days.
The simplest solution for this challenge is a spare chain on the correct duration and the tool to install it. You buy it in a small bag under the seat.
It would also be lighter. The chains only break if they are defective or if you make serious abuse. A bicycle chain intends to require at least 3,000 tensile pounds to break it. Many other people do not have the scope of the stretching problem of the chain. The steel does not stretch, but the wear between the portions provides the stretch effect, causing other problems. We, who seriously drive, have exhausted many channels. The highest driving load can be without problems consistent with the mile. In the case of the two channels and without tensioners, one will probably be used much faster than the other in general use.
Up, you don’t want to cut channels when installing a new one on those bicycles.
Another term used is “break”; But no term is very good. The chains are delivered with the expected maximum number of mandatory links, and the installation of a chain almost requires cutting some to succeed in the mandatory length, even if after that, an important link can succeed at the ends without tools.
I saw this type of conversion, while YouTube still felt a new, a little incredible.
Then, the summary that a bicycle store wants to serve it.
TL; DR: You didn’t see the video, right?
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The story reminds me of a type of bicycle that I met in childhood. Many other people here could not know the bicycles of the two-speed sub-jument. IIRC The centers were manufactured through Sturmey Archer, I can also be wrong.
It looked like normal assembly motorcycles and the posterior pedal implemented the brakes as expected. But that also replaced the speed, and it is not unusual for cyclists to make an immediate “challenge” movement when they looked for the device ratio “the other” after decreasing the speed or detained.
I don’t think the concept has understood, but I saw at least some when I was a child.
HMM, I wonder why other people do not make the video when it was discussed that other well -known responses have been tested and have been considered reliable enough for the target market. I guess there is an apparent answer to that.
I have not fixed much in a muddy environment; But I suspect that there is a safe bias in the designer’s component, as I have noticed in the tastes of many other new bicycle designs, where they have intended to disorders with the popular generation of bicycles that do not know.
Spoiler: All of you fell in love with intelligently camouflaged YouTube.
It is Africa. It must have remained undeniable because many other people do not have exposure to complex mechanical ideas. Watch videos on YouTube from Africans looking to build airplanes and helicopters. A double chain formula is anything that can easily perceive. Do not put them at all. Someone in line with the culture and point of the school of many of these other people perceives why a double chain would be understood and why it lends itself to undeniable repairs. I want to say, finally, they will break a chain and put the giant chain in the smallest aguilon while a thick and elegant tensor. When they need to pass fast, avoid and move the chain through the hand and continue. This opposite simplification is what will resist the control of time in safe parts of Africa.
Chico, say this in this way provides the impression that you are white and that you have never been in Africa.
Look who woke up in the bad of the Mediterranean this morning.
You know, it was skeptical, but apparently, those are largely useful and we will do it in many regions of Africa, and this shows that my skepticism is false. I sought to say “Bah, I only have an undeniable cassette and derail and wrap them with a circuit switch and a fixing tool, than all the same and with a established production base. ” I make a approach of this type would still be a bit cheaper, but the evidence is in the pudding, and do the genuine work. Well done!
In my more than 100,000 miles of bicycle, I have never had a challenge with a rear change; But I know how to take care of things. Your culture is not oriented towards such care.
The deviators are reliable. All you want is a twig taken on the shelves and the diversion, and the detour will end to twist like a Bretzel. I will never buy anything more than a device center.
You know, I also have this mentality, however, the delight that gave me is shown in the opposite direction 🙂
I had an old motorcycle with the evil evil, the motorcycle and the diversion of many separate defects), and was doing an address of 26 thousand in the morning after a snowstorm. About 6 miles, I was caught in a tire routine and I fell. He folded the change on the shelves. So I only hit the detour with my hand and folded it back, and I could finish the trip. In the future, I accepted the limitation that I could not replace speed now. After approximately a year, I left the bicycle because its frame was too folded (unrelated / cumulative damage). But I to stay with a single speed and since then bought exclusive speeds. There is no detour to break, and I am delighted with him.
The ethics of this story is that change is a frustration that I can do without. But another attitude in the same story is that even with all the demanding situations that the change has faced, the fact is that it reliably filled the minimum service as of the tension of the chain.
But for my “winter bike”, which sees many abuses, I was lucky enough for some loose mountain motorcycles of the 1990s. And each of them, the detour was fundamentally unusable. It is possible that they only stretch the chain, and I surrounded them in the form of exclusive Speedsarray . . . moving it with my hands on the mechanism if I needed to tow a trailer or something. And I built a larger trailer than I use more frequently, so I had an ideay . . . I just flooded the mechanism with WD40. And what do you know, work perfectly now! Even after a decade of oxide in position and covered with salt, only five minutes of work WD40. FWIW, I have added any other lubricant and has been forged for a year.
So I think that the ethics of history is, in fact, the divers are super durable and easy to keep in increases
I will stay with undeniable speeds for my dear summer motorcycle, but a type of revelation for me
Without box. Bad design.
Well, between without wheelchair and an impromptu wheelchair, the maximum of other people in need would be the makeshift.
He had a friend who had a bicycle with one of those two -speed centers with a mountain brake, decades ago. He was manufactured through Bendix, his father worked for Studebaker / Bendix and received it for him. It was the only motorcycle that I noticed that I had one. These intermediates can be known gently through 3 circumstant red stripes around the center. I wrapped this motorcycle and did not inspire myself through the small difference in the speed ratio, I liked half of Sturmey Archer at 3 speeds on my motorcycle. However, I think the Bendix was physically powerful and reliable.
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