We have spiffed up an article about the Rohloff 14-speed internal-gear hub which had been lurking on the Harris Cyclery part of the site and placed it with the other informational articles.
Tag: maintenance
Five-Speed Hub Gears
Article about 4- and 5-speed Sturmey-Archer hubs kindly shared by John Forester and now on sheldonbrown.com. This dips into the history of the hubs and suggests several useful modifications also applicable to other hubs.
Sturmey-Archer anti-rotation washers
Major addition to our article with general technical information about Sturmey-Archer internal-gear hubs — the different types of anti-rotation washers. It matters which ones you use!
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.
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.
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) or clickbox.
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 Association serves. All of these articles are online, and we now have a convenient table of contents for them on our site.
On-Road Repairs
John has added a new article about on-road repairs and the on-road toolkit.
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.
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 a worn chain needs replacement using a ruler marked off in centimeters? We’ll show you how! (Inches too, of course.)
