More Gearbox Bikes Entering The Market

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June 21, 2007 3

Thomas over at Bike-Community let us in on a nice thread about some of the latest news on gearbox bikes. Bergamont has entered the gearbox bike arena with its prototype named “Big Air G9″. Bergamont is a Germany based company that has teamed up with Suntour using their 9-speed V-Boxx. The article also discusses Nicolai’s, Ghost’s, and Universal Transmission’s G-Boxx 2 efforts in the world of gearbox bicycles.

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cooper_xl
Jun 21, 2007, 16:13
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they say that that V-Boxx only weights 4,5kg and has a gear bandwidth of 384% but during Eurobike ‘06, Suntour claimed that the system weigh 3kg and has a gear bandwidth of 610%. that’s a lot of difference.

—> http://www.descent-world.co.uk/images/stories/Products2006/EuroBike_06/eb06_gearbox06.jpg

Tee Hee
Jun 22, 2007, 16:13
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Sometimes the specs you read on flyers and posters at the exhibitions are slightly different from the real values … so there’s no reason for wondering about this