On a Schlumf geared uni hub, generally pushing gold is high gear, pushing silver is 1:1. But what about which side: should gold go on the right side or the left? Schlumpf doesn’t seem to recommend a side. I bought my 29" Schlumpf directly from Florian, it has gold on the right side - and I’m kind of used to that now. However, I recently ordered a Schlumpf 36" and found out that Municycle.com routinely mounts gold on the left. I want to standardize between my two Schlumpfs, but I also want to conform to how the majority has their “sidedness”.
So you Schlumpf owners, where do you have gold button? Was that a conscious choice?
I have the gold button on the right side, which shifts the hub into high gear.
I am pretty sure most people have it that way, although it shouldn’t matter how you orient the hub. It would probably be better for you to have gold(high) on the right side since you are already used to that.
I have the gold button on the right side, which shifts the hub into high gear.
I am pretty sure most people have it that way, although it shouldn’t matter how you orient the hub. It would probably be better for you to have gold(high) on the right side since you are already used to that.
Most everyone has the gold on the right side. The hub is universal; it can be run either way. But, most people have the gold (the up shift into high gear) on the right side because it orients the text on the hub in the “correct” way. If you look down at the hub in your wheel, the text will be right side up.
Is that why they do it? The reason I built mine with the gold (up shift) on the right is that I’m right legged. So I figured I should have the slightly stronger, more coordinated leg pushing for the half a revolution after/while I shift up.
All the Schlumpfs I have ridden (4 or so, various ages) had the upshift on the right. But sounds like it’s more a question of preference, so if you want to mess with people leave it the other way. However I don’t think I’d want two Schlumpfs with opposite shifters…
Fwiw I’ve been running the gold/1:1.5 shift on the left.
Even though I’m mainly left handed and my left hand is the dominant hand on the uni, some sports I play right handed. On the uni my right leg is dominant… lol…
So anyway for me having the shift to 1:1.5 on the left means my dominant (right) leg is free to be immediately on the job of controlling the cranks as the shift to the higher gear happens. My left leg can make the shift no worries, and being the less dominant foot can re-position and float around as needed to make the shift without interrupting control of the uni.
Changing down to 1:1 is easier imo in that immediately following the shift it doesn’t require as much control or effort from your legs as shifting up, apart from just spinning your legs up, so that seems to work ok too.
Really though I don’t think it matters which way you set it up, just personal preference or luck of the draw. I’d probably be just as happy with the shift set up the other way around. I’m far more concerned with problems related to the hub itself… e.g. is it going to fail somehow while I’m buzzing along
But I think that if you have more than one GUNI you’d want them all set up the same way or… OUCH!
My gold button is on the left, but I like Phlegm’s advice. It makes more sense that way. And yes, I believe that most riders have the gold on the right.
I seem to remember a post in which Florian says that as far as strength of the hub to resist and transmit torque is concerned, it makes absolutely no difference which way the hub is oriented. So bottom line it’s personal preference and whether you want other riders to feel at home when the ride your guni.
I have one of the older Schlumpf hubs with the torque arm. When I rebuilt my Schlumpf into a 36" wheel the gold (high gear) button was on the right. I rode for a few weeks like that then turned the frame around. I did this because the brake mounts were inexplicably welded to the front of the frame, which meant plenty of knee bashing on my magura brakes. Turning the frame around put the brakes out of harm’s way at the rear of the frame, where they should have been in the first place. Instead of completely unbuilding the wheel then rebuilding it to get the gold button back on the right side I simply swapped which sides the cranks were on.
The upshot of that was that now the gold button is on the left. I thought it would take a while to get used to, but the change of shifting sides was surprisingly easy to adapt to. So as others have said above, it doesn’t really matter which way round you have the buttons.
