Hi, I have been working on a 2 gear and a 3 gear system gear drive. Mostly discussed with people in private messages and few teaser here in there. But I decided that I should stop designing and start making.
I have worked on a 2 gear drive which I also plan to use for more budget builds since using 2 gears is a little bit cheaper than using 3 gears since there are a lot less parts and engineering involved.**
2 Gear System vs 3 Gear System
For pricing I hope to sell this for under $250 for a dual drive. Whilst the 3 gear system will be slightly higher since it probably includes 4-5 more individual parts
I will show pictures of both just to start a discussion, but I plan on start testing and manufacturing the 2 gear system just because of simplicity. There are much less work involved when sourcing parts for this gear drive compared to the 3 gear system. So I think its a good way to test the market and gain experience with something that I know will be rock solid.
The gears are at home waiting for me to be picked up and then modified for proper testing! The only thing stopping for this one is the 1 week wait for the modified gears. I can hopefully be riding in the next couple of weeks
But need to test fitment as soon as that gets done I will work with @AreaKruzer to help provide a solid gear drive. I have designed it for TKP and caliber trucks in mind
The disadvantages are unexplored, no one else has done it. I am doing it for science.
But the benefits are discussed my other topic, I will dig some of the points out
Wheel clearance - can use on smaller wheels, yeah I know a lot of people don’t use the smaller wheels but theres still people out there. Like on 107mm wheels the clearance is over 2cm
You can mount the motors both ways
I will dig more points out but thats the main point
Well I’m definitely following the progress of this. I’m highly interested in more options for surf rod trucks.
If you ever need a 200 pound American who rides a skateboard between 3 job 6 days a week on crappy roads to test drive, I’m your guy lol
The surfordz version is actually easier to make. So once we have the gears figured out,the clamp for the surfrodz can be made, we’ll make a couple and see who wants to test. Think some guys in the UK would also like to test
RKP is also possible but I would 100% need those trucks with me to test.
both, @moon and I will be making some prototypes within a week or two if there is no hiccups. So far we only have some alignment stuff to sort out and it’s pretty much ok for making the prototypes.