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Trucks use a solid driveshaft to transmit power to the rear axle. Is there any merit to using that idea for bikes? (with a geared transmission?)

• wmeredith 6y ago
  Yes. It's a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaft-driven_bicycle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaft-driven_bicycle
• loeg 6y ago
  It's been done. It didn't take off mostly. Some combination of too heavy or too inefficient or too expensive.