Eradicating and reinstalling a motorcycle’s rear wheel is a trouble at the very best of instances, however significantly whenever you’re in a rush. The Twin system is designed to vary that, because it strikes the cassette from the wheel onto the body.
On a conventional street or gravel bike with a rear through axle – which is what the Twin system is made for – removing of the rear wheel entails shifting the chain to the smallest cog on the cassette, yanking out the axle, pulling the derailleur again out of the best way, then pounding down on the wheel till it falls out. Placing the wheel again in entails doing all of that stuff in reverse, together with manually putting the chain again onto the smallest cog.
What would make issues quite a bit simpler can be if the cassette and freehub stayed on the bike when the wheel got here off, permitting the chain to remain wherever you left it, and letting the wheel merely drop straight down from between the chain stays. Nicely, that is the place the Twin system is available in.
Ce package transforme ton vélo en 2 vélos en 10 secondes ! Le Package Twin.
Made by French firm Legend Wheels, the setup works completely with wheels outfitted with the agency’s Legend R27 hub. A 12 x 142-mm through axle and street or gravel disc brakes are additionally required.
Preliminary set up of the Twin system is claimed to take lower than a minute, and would not contain any alterations to the bike’s body. All the required instruments are included within the package.
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And sure, having the system in your bike actually would make it plain ol’ simpler to take your wheel off and put it again on once more. One in every of its touted promoting options, nonetheless, is the concept vehicle-supported aggressive riders would have the ability to do wheel-swaps in just some seconds when transitioning between several types of terrain.
Do you have to be pondering that the entire thing appears to be like form of acquainted … that could possibly be as a result of Twin is constructed upon the Fasten system, unveiled by French startup Lagar Idea in 2021. It moved not solely the cassette however additionally the brake rotor onto the body.
Fasten was in flip preceded by the unsuccessfully crowdfunded HubDock system, and even by the Cinelli Bivalent hub from the early Sixties.
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The Twin system package is obtainable now through the Legend Wheels web site for €349 (about US$405), with the R27 hub going for €169.90 ($197). Legend does additionally supply quite a lot of prebuilt R27-equipped wheels, that are suitable with 9, 10, 11, and 12-speed Shimano and SRAM cassettes.
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