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Five-Speed Hub Gears

Posted on September 2, 2013 by John

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.

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Sturmey-Archer anti-rotation washers

Posted on August 26, 2013 by John

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!

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Updates to Sturmey-Archer 4, 5 and 7-speed hub page

Posted on August 20, 2013 by John

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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Emergency frame repairs

Posted on August 15, 2013 by John

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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More troubleshooting advice on Sachs/SRAM internal-gear hubs

Posted on August 9, 2013 by John

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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Riparazione su strada

Posted on August 8, 2013 by John

Just rolls off the tongue in Italian, doesn’t it? Salvatore Celi has translated our on-road repair article.

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Sheldon’s Articles for Adventure Cycling

Posted on July 26, 2013 by John

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 →

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Another in Italian

Posted on July 17, 2013 by John

Salvatore Celi has also translated Sheldon’s article on Shimano Dura-Ace components into Italian, http://avvsavv.blogspot.it/2013/07/sheldon-brown-shimano-dura-ace.html

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Translations…

Posted on July 3, 2013 by John

There are now translations of the Cables and Cranks articles into Slovak, thanks to translator Juraj Peressényi. Our Teaching Kids to Ride page is availble in Belarusian. There are three articles in Chinese thanks to Phil Feng, and numerous articles … Continue reading →

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On-Road Repairs

Posted on June 28, 2013 by John

John has added a new article about on-road repairs and the on-road toolkit.

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