power transmission NOT using gears/chains?

[Madison]

Originally posted by KenWittlief
The thing I like about this idea the most, you could do this without the oneway clutch (ratchet) with gears and/or chain drive , and to make it a two speed self shifting tranny, all you need to add is one moving part - the little spring loaded cog level thingy.

How could this work without the one way clutch? If there's no clutch to slip when the output spins faster than what the high-torque motor is capable of at free-speed, that motor will drag and be spinning faster than it's free-speed.

...or, because you're making it spin faster than it's "no-load" spin mean that there won't be any appreciable effect on on the output? That is, at its free-speed, the high-torque motors does no work, so, conceivably, it requires very little work to keep it spinning at that speed? Would spinning it faster than it's free-speed damage it?