Daily Archive for May 11th, 2008

SRAM Dual Drive hub

Recently, I won an ebay auction for a wheelset that came off a Cannondale hybrid bike. I was mainly interested in the SRAM Dual Drive hub, since I’d like to use it with my Tikit. When I got home today, I finally got a chance to play with it. At first, when I tried spinning the cassette, the movement wasn’t smooth, and something didn’t seem right. After taking the hub apart, I found a metal piece on the edge of the hub’s shell.

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SRAM’s website and parts list shows this as “Assy Planet Gear Carrier Dual Drive” and part number 65 0372 111 100 . I’m not sure how much this part costs, but I’m not really in a hurry to install it. Maybe tomorrow I’ll give the bike shop in College Park a call to see if they can find out how much it’ll cost.

Packed Car

Today I drove back from PA with four cases of water, one 27″ CRT Television, two backpacks, two boxes of bike parts, one Bike Friday Tikit, one Downtube 9, one dvd player and speaker system, and four cases of water (for my brother). Impressive isn’t it? I can’t believe how much weight the water added, but everything (including my brother) made the handling of the car much different.

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