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I asked a well-known online AI resource what the challenges were to building shaft-drive bicycles. It told me that not only are they heavier, harder to engineer, harder to maintain and limited in gear ratio choice, they are less efficient than chain systems. All well and good, but wouldn't it also be quite easy to strip the gears if you suddenly pedalled really, really hard?
 
I asked a well-known online AI resource what the challenges were to building shaft-drive bicycles. It told me that not only are they heavier, harder to engineer, harder to maintain and limited in gear ratio choice, they are less efficient than chain systems. All well and good, but wouldn't it also be quite easy to strip the gears if you suddenly pedalled really, really hard?
ever stripped the gears out of an angle grinder? no, me either, but that's basically what's at either end.



I looked at that and thought "oh, that could be an interesting engineering challenge". I need my head read. :)
 
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