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Tag Archives: maintenance
Updates to Sturmey-Archer 4, 5 and 7-speed hub page
Major updates to the page on Sturmey-Archer 4, 5 and 7-speed hubs, mostly concerning the hubs sold from 1991 through 2009.
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Tagged 4-speed, 5-speed, 5-Star, 7-speed, AF, AT7, bicycle, FC, FG, FW, gearing, gears, internal, maintenance, planetary, RX-RF5, S-RF5(W), S5, shelbroco, Sheldon, Sheldon Brown, sheldonbrown, sheldonbrown.com, shifter, Sprinter, Sturmey-Archer, Summit
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Emergency frame repairs
Headed out on tour where you could be 100 miles or more from the nearest bicycle shop? Or do you just want to know the principles of bicycle frame alignment? We have an article for you.
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Tagged align, alignment, alloy, aluminum, bicycle, carbon, carbon fiber, frame, lugged, maintenance, repair, shelbroco, Sheldon, Sheldon Brown, sheldonbrown, sheldonbrown.com, steel, straighten, titanium, welded, welding
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More troubleshooting advice on Sachs/SRAM internal-gear hubs
There’s more troubleshooting advice now in our article about Sachs/SRAM internal-gear hubs: how to test whether a problem is inside the hub, or only in the shifter and cable — for hubs with 3, 5 or 7 speeds, with pullchain(s) … Continue reading
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Tagged 3 x 7, 3x7, 5-speed, 7-speed, 9-speed, bicycle, coaster brake, DualDrive, Elan, g8, G9, gearing, gears, hub, i-motion 3, i-Motion 9, internal, internal-gear, maintenance, p5, Pentasport, planetary, s7, shelbroco, Sheldon, Sheldon Brown, sheldonbrown, sheldonbrown.com, shifter, Sparc, Spectro 7, SRAM, Super 7, T3
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Sheldon’s Articles for Adventure Cycling
From 1999 through 2007, Sheldon wrote the column “Mechanical Advantage” for Adventure Cycling, the magazine of the Adventure Cycling Association. He covered a wide range of mechanical topics, oriented toward the needs of the bicycle tourists with the Adventure Cycling … Continue reading
On-Road Repairs
John has added a new article about on-road repairs and the on-road toolkit.
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Tagged bicycle, maintenance, repair, rim, Sheldon, Sheldon Brown, sheldonbrown, sheldonbrown.com, tires, tools, wheel
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Maintaining Bike Friday hinges
Friends, here’s a new article giving step-by-step instructions for maintenance of Bike Friday hinges: http://sheldonbrown.com/bike-friday-hinge.html A question remains: how tight to tighten the bolts.They press the frame tabs against the barrel of the hinge. Probably not too, too tight.
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Tagged bicycle, Bike Friday, Crusoe, hinge, Llama, lubrication, maintenance, new World tourist, Pocket rocket, Sheldon, Sheldon Brown, sheldonbrown, sheldonbrown.com
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Chains
Major update to our article on chain maintenance — bicycle chain was developed in the U.K. and is dimensioned in inches. Most of the world including the U.K. has gone over to the metric system. How do you tell whether … Continue reading
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Tagged bicycle, chain, derailer, gearing, gears, lubrication, maintenance, oil, Sheldon, Sheldon Brown, sheldonbrown, sheldonbrown.com, wax
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Upgrading old road bikes
I’ve filled out and Harriet has formatted Sheldon’s page about upgrading old road bikes, which Sheldon left as a work in progress.
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Tagged bicycle, bottom bracket, cassette, chain, cranks, crankset, derailer, derailleur, frame spacing, gearing, gears, hub, internal, internal-gear, maintenance, repair, Sheldon, Sheldon Brown, sheldonbrown, sheldonbrown.com, upgrading
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Sachs Elan/SRAM E12 Internals
John has posted a new article about the mechanism of the Sachs Elan/SRAM E12 12-speed internal-gear hub; the largest, heaviest, most complicated internal-gear hub ever marketed — flawed execution of a brilliant design concept. The unusual way this hub establishes … Continue reading
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Tagged 12-speed, bicycle, Elan, gearing, gears, hub, internal, internal-gear, maintenance, repair, shelbroco, Sheldon, Sheldon Brown, sheldonbrown, sheldonbrown.com, SRAM
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Shimano Internal-Gear Hubs
John has made major updates to the pages on Shimano Nexus and Alfine internal-gear hubs — 3-speed, 7-speed and 8-speed; also a page with general mechanical information.
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Tagged 11-speed, 3-speed, 4-speed, 7-speed, 8-speed, Alfine, anti-rotation, antirotation, cassette jopint, hub, internal, internal-gear, maintenance, Nexus, repair, shimano
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