I have some good tech questions regarding Schlumpf Hubs and a disk brake mounted to the AXLE. I have no experience with the hubs as of yet and wonder if anyone here could clarify on this thread or on the thread below:
One suggestion on geared hubs. If you brake through(attached to crank) the gearing, it puts a lot of stress on the gears,you would be using the gears to take up all the braking weight. If you brake at the hub it stops the wheel no gearing involved, and at the price of a geared hub, more undue stress through the gearing could have expensive/catastrophic results.
-Lobbybopster
im just wondering with the disc mounted to the Schlumpf axle wouldn’t there be a little bit of backlash when using the brakes?
if you stop the axle the hub would still have play within the gears and would cause a slight slipping feel,with a HS33 you wouldn’t feel this as bad,because the rim is slowed down.
any input to this?
-filotr14lsdude
If you use a drag brake, what additional strain does it place on the gears that your legs don’t when slowing down?
-KB1JKI