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.
Tag: shifter
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.
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.
Sun Tour bicycle components
Several additions to the Sun Tour article, especially about freewheels.
More about Sachs/SRAM hubs
John has prepared a new page about the Sachs Orbit hybrid-gear hub and added information about this hub to internal-gears.html and sachs-internal.html; also links to Karsten Stielow’s very interesting Web pages about Sachs and SRAM hubs.
Frayed cable
John has added a photo of a frayed cable to the article on cables.
Repair of Shimano STI Drop-Bar Brake/Shift Levers
These levers no longer index properly when the grease inside gums up — and the internals are very complicated. John Allen has posted an article describing several approaches to repair of these levers, and with a link to an expert in rebuilding them.
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.
ShelBroCo new product
Check it out! The honored tradition of ShelBroCo products lives on!
