Sturmey Archer 3sp hub - warning Ap*ll* content!

[Andy R]

Well - moping around the MILs garage at the weekend I unearthed this wonderful example :shock:

I suppose that I'm the only one that initially read this as "Moping around the MILF's garage......... :roll: :roll:

 

[DM]

Retrobike spawns another shonky mutant!

MTBR/ VRC was never this much fun

 

[jimihendrix]

Mark, Sheldon said using coaster brakes off road was madness not drum brakes.

Na, he definitely reconed drums were madness due to heat buildup and subsiquent fade, but it's cool, you can all laugh at me when i'm wrapped around a tree with the brakes on fire

 

[barry2017]

You need one of the longer AW hub axles, some spacers to respace it to 130mm, a fulcrum clip and 36 washers to put behind your modern wheel's spokes (it has a steel shell, so narrower flanges). Plus a shifter.

Some AWs go for 30,000 miles with no more attention than oil changes, I really wouldn't worry about breaking it. I've done some awful things to mine in the past.

I think it's great, by the way. My favourite bike has an AW, and it's the most useful bike I've ever owned. Three gears feels like a singlespeed, but has a gear for downhills, a ratio like offroad singlespeed and a ratio like road singlespeed.

 

[velomaniac]

Drums are only going to catch fire doing the repack in the Californian Rockies. Inners is steep but not long enough to ignite your brakes

 

[Mr Panda]

OOOOOh - some interesting stuff here.

Also found this - very illuminating and great history section:

http://www.sturmey-archer.com/

 

[Mr Panda]

You need one of the longer AW hub axles, some spacers to respace it to 130mm, a fulcrum clip and 36 washers to put behind your modern wheel's spokes (it has a steel shell, so narrower flanges). Plus a shifter.

Some AWs go for 30,000 miles with no more attention than oil changes, I really wouldn't worry about breaking it. I've done some awful things to mine in the past.

I think it's great, by the way. My favourite bike has an AW, and it's the most useful bike I've ever owned. Three gears feels like a singlespeed, but has a gear for downhills, a ratio like offroad singlespeed and a ratio like road singlespeed.

Yep - I have all the parts to make it work. Just have to solve the axle and spoke spacing now :shock:

 

[Mr Panda]

Retrobike spawns another shonky mutant!

MTBR/ VRC was never this much fun

As a 10 yr old boy I had a midnight blue BSA Wayfarer with 3sp SA gearing like this.
As part of the Continual Improvement Process, I reprayed it metallic turquoise (well it was the 1970s) in the dining room and replaced the straight bars with Maes Bend efforts Major Shonkiness. Cycled everywhere on it - well all over the South Glasgow Countryside

Never stopped polishing the chrome wheels though.......