Phaser Gearbox
Monday, March 19th, 2007Phaser has come out with a pretty slick gearbox system. MBUK got the full scoop on it and it’s no doubt that drivetrain companies are worried about Gearbox’s. Check out more and a video inside of how this beauty works.
“No Smoke MTB is an Italian company who has come up with a gear box transmission solution. By using two 11 sprocket cassettes in parallel, the chain is shunted using rollers on tracks and guides to elicit 11 speeds of useable gears.”
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March 19th, 2007 at 10:32 pm
Thats sick, now does it mount to a special frame or will they sell one that will somehow bolt onto your standard frame?
March 19th, 2007 at 10:39 pm
Yep, It will require a special frame.
March 20th, 2007 at 4:34 am
if they are clever they use this system with the g-con standard. (g-boxx nicolai) and voila you have a lighter (probably) gear-thing than a g-boxx (think there is rohloff inside)
March 20th, 2007 at 9:18 am
G-boxx using a rohloff speedhub will have to drastically use some expensive light parts to come close i think.
Here’s a cutout of whats inside one.
While they are coming out with a lighter one they say, the phaser looks a lot more promising as its already lighter. Great stuff though. The other issue is right now they’re using a grip shifter, but are supposed to be making a trigger shifter soon from what i’ve heard.
March 21st, 2007 at 4:06 am
hmmm…looks a lot heavier.
a little bit sad is, i read on a different site that this thing wont come with the g boxx standard…
March 21st, 2007 at 11:39 am
OH IM SURE HAYES WILL BE HAPPY
I THINK THEY DID THIS AND PATENTED IT
March 21st, 2007 at 12:32 pm
I’m not sure if they did patent it or not. I converted a page on it awhile back
http://sicklines.com/petespeed_translated.html
original page
http://www.dirty-pages.net/nieuws/petespeed.html
March 21st, 2007 at 7:14 pm
Ive been following gearbox design
for while and most companies seem to think they can patent a deraileur in a box when i looked into patenting something similar i was told bya patent company that concepts such as this would not hold up well in scrutiny
so ive been developing continuously variable transmission NO CHAIN
September 29th, 2007 at 10:42 am
Does anyone have the number of teeth on both those cassettes. I’m extremely interested in these mtb gearboxes.