Ross crank sprocket freewheel Q.

[Anonymous]

I've never seen one of these before.

Ross girls 26" 10sp. The crank sprocket ratchets/freewheels and the rear is fixed and the chain keeps turning even while coasting alowing gear changes.

Is this a Ross exclusive? I'm kinda curious.

My web search turned up nothing.

 

[ParkRNDL]

My wife had a Ross with that when we first met. The concept was called the Front Freewheel system. Check these links:

http://www.answers.com/topic/front-freewheel

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/shimano1982/pages/35.html

the second one is from here:

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/shimano.html

I just plugged "front freewheel" into Google. There was a lot more stuff than that...

--rick

 

[Anonymous]

Hey Thanks Park,That helps alot!

I can tell by your handle you're a Powerglide man...and an American Graffiti fan!

 

[ParkRNDL]

Hehehehehehe. I always wonder if people get the AG reference. Sometimes I think about rotating signatures between different AG quotes... there's a million good ones...

--rick

 

[Anonymous]

You mean John Milner? hey,nobody can beat him,man he's got the fastest...

I aint nobody dork.

A Classic.

 

[Rat Rod]

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"Yeah, I know I know..."

 

[Anonymous]

...and a bottle of Old Harper...

 

[wahoonc]

I've never seen one of these before.

Ross girls 26" 10sp. The crank sprocket ratchets/freewheels and the rear is fixed and the chain keeps turning even while coasting alowing gear changes.

Is this a Ross exclusive? I'm kinda curious.

My web search turned up nothing.

It was made by Shimano (originally) and called the FFS. IIRC Schwinn used it on a couple of bikes for 2-3 years. When it works it is okay, but not super collectible. Just an oddity. It was supposed to allow you to shift gears while coasting. (something you can do with an internal geared hub anyway)

Aaron 8)

 

[ParkRNDL]

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[Multipass]

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[62Higgins]

Those cranksets come around every so often. I need one right now for an idea I got from a picture I saw on a european site.

It incorporates a go kart rear axle assembly to make a trike. I sketched it all out and realized it wouldn't work without a freewheeling crankset...

...and as luck would have it, my buddy just found an old Schwinn with this set up on it.

 

[wahoonc]

Those cranksets come around every so often. I need one right now for an idea I got from a picture I saw on a european site.

It incorporates a go kart rear axle assembly to make a trike. I sketched it all out and realized it wouldn't work without a freewheeling crankset...

...and as luck would have it, my buddy just found an old Schwinn with this set up on it.

I want to see pictures of that!

Aaron 8)