Happy Valley
Active Member
Ok lets say Im a mountain biker and i want to get my ride up to the trailhead and remove the engine and ride trails engineless. How hard is it to remove the DE?
If that's a literal question it's moot, and why I asked upthread if you were planning on dirt riding, friction drives are not going to perform well with knobbies.
If you were asking the question for general on road use and specifically about the DE system I think you already got your answer.
Another question I continually ponder though and probably not an abundant amount of interest in this question here since much of the point of this board is about the machinations people go through just to complete a one-way transformation of a working MB is:
What drive system least impacts the functionality of a good bicycle in regard to compromises of that functionality and with matters like weight and ease of swapping out or returning to pure pedal mode?