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- From: king@reasoning.com (Dick King)
- Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
- Subject: Re: B. Rohloff on Rohloff chains
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.000755.12282@kestrel.edu>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 00:07:55 GMT
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- In article <4sR891frv4@bi-l003.bi-link.owl.de> H.ZIERKE@BI-LINK.owl.de (Hans-Joachim Zierke) writes:
- >
- >>I don't believe for a minute that Rohloff bores non round holes
- >>in his components nor that he has oriented cam ground pins.
- >
- >We don't know what 'oriented cam ground pins' are but we bet a
- >box of 20 "Paulaner Dunkles Hefe Weissbier" against a bottle of
- >original Southern Comfort that all roller plates of all Rohloff
- >chains do have non round holes! The exact shape of the holes is
- >called trochoide which you can create by deviding a round gateau
- >in three parts (of 120 degree) and then moving them a little bit
- >away from the center and connecting the circle periphery with
- >three tangent lines.
- >
- > ...
- >
- >However,the problem with increasing the clearance is that
- > ...
- > - The chain can be twisted excessively around its longitudinal
- > axis causing bad gear shifting qualities.
- >
- >This is the first point where the construction of the Rohloff
- >chain shows substantial advantages.
- >The inside of the integral bushings, the 'holes', provide a 120
- >degree segment of the same diameter as the pin increasing the
- >contact area between pins and integral bushings. Elastic
- >deformation is therefore very low.
- >In addition, the force per area is reduced, in turn reducing the
- >wear of pins and bushings.
- >The opposite side of the contact area allows more space of
- >clearance than a conventional chain, with the result that the
- >chain achieves a side to side flexibility of more than 2 degree
- >per link. However, the twist around its longitudinal axis is
- >only 90 degrees per meter (79 links).
-
- The slack is still there. Why doesn't it increase torsional flexibility [bad]
- as well as lateral flexibility [good]?
-
- -dk
-