8 speed internal hub.

SpaceFmK · 2011-08-20, 07:16 AM

I don't know if any of you have seen this yet, I just saw it at a local festival and I wondered if it might be able to somehow be adaptable to unicycles.
http://www.elliptigo.com/products/elliptigo-3c/#speed

Any thoughts?

Mikefule · 2011-08-20, 08:16 AM

Looks like an expensive gimmick to me. Less practical than a bike, less versatile than a unicycle - a machine that is designed to be hard work to ride!

Unicycleaddict · 2011-08-20, 09:28 AM

What festival did you see that at around here rob?

jtrops · 2011-08-20, 03:53 PM

I don't think the Alfine hub would be easily converted for uni use. Aside from design problems, from stuff I've read it isn't the most robust hub out there. I doubt it could handle the abuse for very long before it failed. There are people who have built XC mountain bike wheels with it and had mixed results. Some kind of Nuvinci, or Rohloff would be cool, but in the end I don't see either being cheaper than a Schlumpf.

stingingkneeben · 2011-08-20, 04:04 PM

i used to have somthing like that but you had to pump the platforms up and down the design has moved o since then but yeah as for the hub its not really possible

2011-08-20, 07:16 AM	#1
SpaceFmK Unicycle Daze - Rob Campbell Join Date: May 2009 Location: Bremerton, WA Age: 25 Posts: 1,264	8 speed internal hub. I don't know if any of you have seen this yet, I just saw it at a local festival and I wondered if it might be able to somehow be adaptable to unicycles. http://www.elliptigo.com/products/elliptigo-3c/#speed Any thoughts? __________________ The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is all comprehensible. The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. -AE

2011-08-20, 08:16 AM	#2
Mikefule Roland Hope School of Unicycling Join Date: May 2002 Location: Long Bennington, Lincolnshire, England. Posts: 6,518	Looks like an expensive gimmick to me. Less practical than a bike, less versatile than a unicycle - a machine that is designed to be hard work to ride! __________________ "I try to avoid UPDs, not do scientific research on them." Bruce Dawson

2011-08-20, 09:28 AM	#3
Unicycleaddict Unicycle User Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: bremerton, (seattle) Age: 25 Posts: 250	What festival did you see that at around here rob? __________________ ~MaTtT Josal

2011-08-20, 03:53 PM	#4
jtrops Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Location: Longmont, Colorado Age: 45 Posts: 1,287	I don't think the Alfine hub would be easily converted for uni use. Aside from design problems, from stuff I've read it isn't the most robust hub out there. I doubt it could handle the abuse for very long before it failed. There are people who have built XC mountain bike wheels with it and had mixed results. Some kind of Nuvinci, or Rohloff would be cool, but in the end I don't see either being cheaper than a Schlumpf. __________________ "A properly ridden unicycle is like an object in orbit: constantly falling but never landing." -Diogenes

2011-08-20, 04:04 PM	#5
stingingkneeben Ben Glynn Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: salford manchester Age: 20 Posts: 223	i used to have somthing like that but you had to pump the platforms up and down the design has moved o since then but yeah as for the hub its not really possible __________________ when life gives you lemons say " hey thanks free lemons "

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