Has anyone ever........

[JT Smooth]

Has anyone here ever or know how to........

Put 3-5 gears on a cruiser, what hub you need to lace to rear rim?
And how to mount rear deralier (spelling?!?!)

Cheers folks 

[bof]

sturmey archer , you could have a stick shift on your top tube.

[darkersomeday]

profile make a 3 speed rear hub with 110m bmx size spacing,

comes with a mech hanger too

[Bob_Acid]

Buy an MTB

[se bikes]

Buy an MTB

Well said, why the fook fit gears to a cruiser

[jimmyp]

Buy an MTB

Just what i was gonna say, what you upto tally 

[Bob_Acid]

   

[MartyC]

   

LMAO 

[JT Smooth]

Buy an MTB

Well said, why the fook fit gears to a cruiser

So the wife can ride it round the back lanes when we go for ride
wid bambino and I can then have a cruiser for on the track!

Its all a sly plan so I get another bike, if thats ok with you lot that is!

[JT Smooth]

profile make a 3 speed rear hub with 110m bmx size spacing,

comes with a mech hanger too

Thanks for the info 

[SaMAlex]

I put a 6 speed MTB hub in a cruiser. I just built the 24" rim into an old MTB hub and forced the frame open a little wider. I had a simple thumb shifter on the bars with outer cable all the way to the mech, that was held on with a bolt on mech hanger. It worked fine (but looked and rode awful). I wanted to use the bike for just "riding about" and thought I would need a few gears. I never really needed to use them so I put it back to single speed. The bike felt so much better! The chain didnt flap around when I jumped off curbs and I could even fire out the odd 180 cos the chain stayed on when I went backwards.

I think I have got some pics of it somewhere cos I helped a mate out and did some riding shots for MBUK on it (or some other MTB mag). I will try and scan them in if I can find them.

I did start to think about using the shimano Nexus internal hub gear but I never got as far as finding one. I think they are 5 speed and I think they work way better than a sturmey archer 3 speed. You might need to muck about with the front ring size to get the set of gear ratios youd need.

[JT Smooth]

Cheers for all that Alex