Originally Posted by
Bad Lag
Single sided hub = solution to a non-problem.
Originally Posted by
Chombi1
I think single sided rear wheels on steel bicycles do not work as well as they do in motorcycles as they could not beef up the frame enough as they did on the motorcycles, to minimize the resulting twisting flex at the rear, caused by the moment forces coming from the cantilevered rear axle.
I guess on a townie bikeike this one it will not be an 8ssue but on a road race steel bike it certainly will. Monocoque carbon bikes like the famous one from Lotus are of course, an exception.
Except they have been around for ages in the mountainbike world on the front. The
Cannondale Lefty Ocho is one modern example. They're claimed to be lighter and stiffer than traditional forks.
For the rear, especially with disc brakes, there is simply not enough room to put the cassette and disc on the same side. I'm willing to bet it's very possible to make the rear stiff enough but it's more a case of not enough real estate.
There have been fixed gear bikes that are one-sided however:
English project right