Re: [Classicrendezvous] Sturmey Archer SW Hub also SA front hub brake

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From: <CYCLETRUCK@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 01:12:22 EST
Subject: Re: [Classicrendezvous] Sturmey Archer SW Hub also SA front hub brake
To: jfbender@umich.edu, Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


jfbender@umich.edu writes:
> So if this SW hub works out, I would like to get a 36 hole SA front hub
> brake, preferably from the '50s or earlier. Does anyone have anything or a
> potential source? An American hub brake would also be OK. I have an early
> 50's Alloy shell AW to swap. I have no idea of the relative value of SA
> products though.
> I've never had to pay more than $50 for an S/A front drumhub & that was at swap & NOS w/box....but on Ebay in recent months they're getting about $50 +/-$10 or so. Up to the $90's for something NIB fresh.

BTW: There was an SW on Ebay awhile back that was listed as a '59. Were these hubs in fact made for several more years after '57 or is this one of those rare, highly collectible, (with hub-collection center-piece potential) date-number miss-strikes that the hubaphiles tend to watch for? .......no offense intended...

Does your Schwinn Superior have the plain logoless quadrant that often shows up on pre-war Schwinn 3spds?

Calvert Guthrie
Kansas City
MISSOURI