392 geared bike...?

[FST4RD]

I know it sounds weird/stupid/crazy but if you had a bike with a 14 speed internal geared Rohloff rear hub, a frame with a 14 speed Rohloff hub mounted in it (gearbox dh bike style) and a Truvativ Hammerschmidt crank set you would then have a bike with 392 gears right? All with 2 chains and no derailuers....

 

[ekiborter]

I prefer to ride fixed.

 

[FST4RD]

LOL it's getting late over here and I'm sleep deprived, and when your over tired you can come up with some odd ideas

 

[Tazio]

But how many of the gears would be repetitions?

 

[FairfaxPat]

Back in the 1970's here in Marin, one of the guys, Fred Wolf, had a Klunker set up with a triple crank, a 6 speed cluster, and a 3 speed Sturmey Archer hub for a total of 54 speeds! The gearing was so low that one hot summer day Charlie Kelly, Fred and me were riding up a 1500 foot high ridge when it got too steep for CK and me, so we got off our bikes and started pushing up the hill. Fred was still pedaling in a tiny gear when we trudged past him-he saw us walking past him, so he speeded up his RPM but that didn't work and we beat him up the hill anyway!