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"it will shove the gears into one another too close, causeing them to bind"

not in the video but there will be additional hard stops preventing just this. we certainly don't want all the force pushing the gears together leading to any kind of binding. the spacing can be made to be ideal relatively easily.

But yes we can fit a premade shifter assembly as well if this doesn't work out. The same approach goes for using smaller wheels. the flexibility with the chain allows us to compensate for several different variables. There is certainly a lot of flexibility here and we'll see where we end up but we'll start with something nearly identical to this then start changing stuff up.