[EricH]

Originally Posted by chris31

Its hard for me to judge from the angle, but it looks like you will not have much room for an output sprocket due to the encoder. I could just be look at a bad angle.

It does look that way. However, I'd say they aren't planning on having a sprocket directly attached to the output shaft. The encoder and shifter would get in the way except in a fairly narrow angle. Plus that's a pretty small sprocket. I'm going to guess that they use a coupler to a longer shaft that can either direct drive a wheel or connect to a sprocket.

My question is, are the side plates going to be hogged out to save weight? Those are some heavy trannies!