Revisions to the Shimano Rollerbrake page: links to Shimano’s (finally) well-organized compilation of Rollerbrake documentation; information on installing front Rollerbrakes.
Shimano Rollerbrake page updated
Tag: cable
More indicator spindles
David Prosser of Sturmey Archer has sent information about a couple of Sturmey-Archer indicator spindles (the chain-pull assembly which shifts the hub). It is now on our indicator spindle page. Thanks David!
Edit to cable travel adapter cribsheet
The cable travel adapter cribsheet has been edited to include more information, and links.
Rollerbrakes article expanded
Major additions to the article on Shimano Rollerbrakes — advanced instruction on maintenance, more advice about when these brakes are most suitable.
Frayed cable
John has added a photo of a frayed cable to the article on cables.
John Allen’s updates to the site 12/2010-3/2011
March 13-22-25
headsets.html – major updates including instructions on adjustment of threaded headsets; added exploded diagrams; resized photos and added a photo of a “brinelled” bearing race. More to come — photos of disassembly/reassembly.
March 12
velos.html — added comments in favor of the Peugeot UO-8 frame.
March 11
tooltips/cartridge.html — added information about Velo Orange French-threaded bottom bracket.
February 18
raleigh26.html Minor update (fixed formatting of a list, and one spelling error)
home-drop.html — noted unavailability of commercial drop bolts, pointed to my own implementation, ran a spell check.
January 1
saddles.html — added information on saddle width. tire pressure and width, and suspension seatposts.
December 28
gears/index.html, gears/internal.html, braquets/index.html — I put the new Sturmey-Archer S2 into the calculators. SA used the same model number for a different hub in 1966.
December 27
deakins/lowgears.html
December 26
speeds.html — added information about SRAM 10-speed systems
k7.html — added information on 9 of 10 on 7
k7-7.shtml — updated to indicate cassettes now no longer available
gearing/index.html — added links to more pages about gearing
December 25
seatpost-sizes.html and seatpost-sizes-m-z.html,: major updates and added encoded link to the Webmasters’ new e-mail address.
December 24
brakes.html — updated to provide a guide to the other brakes pages.
