3 Speed on-axle shifting?

[Drunkskunk]

I have this nice bike that I don't plan to convert. It was a single speed, but I have a 3 speed laying around I want to use on it. It's a coaster brake bike, and I don't want to ruin the look of it with a cable for a shifter.

Does anyone know of a shifter for an IGH, 3 speed or otherwise, that was shifted at the axle? I either want to buy one, or copy one and build it my self, but I've never even heard of something like this except in a really old add about how "now you can shift remotely!", but nothing about how that IGH used to shift, and no other examples of non remote shifting IGH. Somewhere, at sometime, someone has had to have an on-axle shifter.


Not mine, but the bike looks like this:

 

[spinningmagnets]

There are some 2-speed "kick back" shifters. No cables, you reverse the spin on the pedals for a few degrees, and whatever gear you are in (high or low) the IGH would go to the other one...Of course it would require rim brakes or disc brakes...I believe they are quite useful for a pedal-only beach cruiser, on flat land...(or maybe a front-wheel-drive beach cruiser?)

Duomatic
Sturmey Archer
Bendix

 

[Voltron]

A couple of companies sell a suicide shifter CNC adaptor where one piece clamps to the seat tube or seat stays, then the three speed shifter mounts on that, then a short lever clamps over the actual shifter. You usually see them in low rider catalogs for that exact reason of not wanting it all the way up to the bars.

 

[amberwolf]

Even if there was one that shifted at the axle, you'd pretty much have to get off the bike to shift it each time, unless it had a big enough lever hanging off of it that you could reach with your foot without looking, while you hung on the bike with hands on the bars and one foot on the other pedal swivelling back and forth....

But no, I've never seen one that shifted at the axle itself.

You can move the 3speed shifter anywhere on the bike you want, including under the nose of the saddle to hide it if you like, though it will look a bit odd every time you reach down between your legs to shift gears.


BTW, if it's a coaster brake bike, the IGH will also have to have a coaster brake. Not all of them do. None of the Sturmey Archers I have here do, nor do the Shimanos. The Sachs Torqueedo I've got does, and so does a 7speed SRAM (though I still have to invent a shifter and shifter rod for that one).

 

[markz]

IGH Kickshift - https://www.amazon.com/Sturmey-Archer-Kick-Shift-Silver-Coaster/dp/B0041X814O

No shifter or cables

https://youtu.be/pUilvbDTQpk?t=61


SRAM Automatix
http://mccraw.co.uk/sram-automatix-review/
https://youtu.be/LlItzt879SA?t=14

Would ruin the clean look of a sleek igh but think about "Auto Shift" Derailleurs
Derailleur style - https://youtu.be/knMPK3TziPs?t=11
Newer - https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/product-news/proshift-automatic-shifting-28889

 

[Drunkskunk]

Thanks. This is why I love ES. I had a problem, and a solution in mind, And you all got me thinking in totally new directions.
I'd wanted to reuse what I had, and both Amberwolf and Voltron's suggestions might let me do that, but the Kick back hub and the automatic hub seem like more elegant solutions. They might also be cheaper in terms of time and effort.