Re: [CR] WTB Sturmey Archers hub, further elaboration

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From: "neil foddering" <neilfoddering@hotmail.com>
To: kohl57@starpower.net, Mark@bulgier.net, freitas1@pacbell.net, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR] WTB Sturmey Archers hub, further elaboration
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 10:20:45 +0000


Of course, you could go the whole hog, and fit a Sturmey, PLUS a derailleur, with a two or three cog Cyclo adaptor (or just two Sturmey sprockets back to back - when I bought it, my Granby Taperlite had two large sprockets on a Sturmey three-speed, operated by a Cyclo Oppy).

I have K, TF, ASC, AF, AW, FM and FW Sturmey hubs, and of these, my favourite is the FM. Nice low gear, and for touring and general riding, I find that a high gear in the 70's is fine.

Neil Foddering Weymouth, Dorset.


>From: "P.C. Kohler" <kohl57@starpower.net>
>To: "Mark Bulgier" <Mark@bulgier.net>,"Bob Freitas"
><freitas1@pacbell.net>,"CLASSIC RENDEZVOUS"
><classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
>Subject: Re: [CR] WTB Sturmey Archers hub, further elaboration
>Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 22:00:20 -0500
>
>Yes, Mark... the FW is another good candidate but... I don't find that's
>very often available say on eBay. It was not fitted as a stock hub to any
>of the Raleigh-Rudge-Humber machines.. the de luxe Tourist and Sports
>roadsters had four-speed FG dynohubs and the Lenton-Pathfinder-Clippers had
>FMs. Now, my 1948 Clubman has an FW but of course that was a year before
>the alloy shells. Anything that was stock on a Raleigh Industries machine
>is "common"... they had no equals when it came to turning out the goods!
>And when it came to club and racing machines, they were also just about the
>only firm to spec hub gears as standard in the 1950s.
>
>Peter Kohler
>Washington DC USA