BMX Drivers in all sizes

The so-called casette hub has arrived in the bmx sport ! A driver does now work! These drivers are called plug-driver gets plugged into the hub body and usually equipped with several sealed bearings ! A very simple but effective mechanism, which led to that even today can drive...Click to continue.

What info do I need 

What driver do i need depends on what hub I drive. The bmx industry has met the requirements and always tested newer versions of drivers. They are available in many varieties, such as the high-end titanium driver of profiles. This must not be that way. You can get on the market today versions of Eclat, Odyssey, Proper or which are more favorable to many times the same properties .#

The driver that we offer in range have consistently all sealed bearings, a longevity is guaranteed. Of course, the driver is one of the wear parts of a bmx bike. Here comes again the topic of care into play. Since natural attrition occurs due to the high stress and friction is the greasing of the driver and chain a absolute must and should be checked regularly. They are available in different sizes and in the execution of lhd, rhd or already switchable. For the latter, but you need a specific hub that offers this exchange counter. Since the sprockets as it was in the 80s standard is now only operated at cheap bikes, it no longer occurs almost in appearance. Whether a pinion or Driver's broken you realize not always the same, often initially incur little noises and then the damage will already run its course. But not everything has to be broken when noise incur the same, often lacking just a little oil or fat and everything runs like clockwork. If, however, total breakdown then there are usually two problems that occur. Most bearings are broken and dissolve in the course of your life, bmx, which means it break out the pieces then make slowly but surely in the breakdown of your Drivers on it. A Driver fraction may also be the opportunity you notice this rather quickly since then nothing goes ahead. Is it only the bearing can be remedied quickly and you build only the driver and then equip it with new bearings available for little money in bmx shop from the Driver break in the game you have no other choice than to buy a new.

BMX Sprocket made out of chromoly

a bmx sprocket with the most important on your bmx bike. They are available in two versions. Sprockets the old known, here, the pinion screwed to the hub body. The disadvantage is that you only up to max. 13 teeth the sprockets can use. Want to go smaller number of teeth left to do the transition to a cassette bmx hub. Here we come straight to the second type of bmx sprocket namely the driver. Here the pinion is so constructed that you put the pinion in the hub body, you need cassette hub.

In the future it will probably be so that there will be exclusively only driver versions. Since today in the bmx sport mostly the standard ratio of 25/9 is down because it offers significant advantages in the skate park or in the street area, it may be assumed that the days of thread on sprockets are numbered. If more manufacturers to take advantage of the small Driver trust the more the rest into the background, the fact remains the Driver is the best thing on the market. Already equip companies like Stereo Bikes or Wethepeople their complete bikes with these wonder weapons technology and you already get a entry level bmx bike in this equipment. It is therefore also an important deciding feature if you stand just before buying a complete bike, pay close attention to the specs and compare particularly what rims and hubs are built and let the fingers off if you do not find these features, because still applies quality has always been proven.

Is there a need for 9 tooth Drivers ?

why did the driver actually only 9 teeth ? The bmx sprocket history goes back to the early seventies, so Shimano engineers had first date, high-quality chromoly sprockets. Simple steel versions in the first-best stress broke apart. bmx drivers in all sizesShimano was the turning point where you wear the minimized chromoly pinion material in processed and harder steel.

Only in the late 90s, you then had a breakthrough idea, similar to the previously prevailing already in the other world bike cassette mechanism, so that you can drive to rebuild a small pinion as possible. The need came up because the skate park riders regularly with your big chain rings hanging on the steel coping remained. The 9 tooth driver was born. From now joined this technique in the relentless march and is now standard in almost 99% of all bmx hubs. Of course there was the beginning still problems since the chains not been adjusted, but which abruptly with the Half Link Chain was a perfect match. Man standing in front of numerous problem because the driver was indeed very small and so of course got more load on the bearings. But even that was elegantly solved by inventing harder stock and at the same time placed several storage in a Driver. Although there were numerous pinion in the testing phase broken but today's versions can no longer be desired. Whether Chromoly or the expensive aluminum or even titanium solutions hold the loads. Still heads to be haggled Driver resourceful solutions in bmx, one has recently thrown versions with only 8 teeth on the market, but this should finally give the last possible small solution since it is otherwise with respect to the bearing critical.

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