[CR]Re: Why convert a 4-speed Sturmey trigger for ASC use?

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Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:44:47 -0800 (PST)
From: "John Clay" <jmedclay@yahoo.com>
To: hsachs@alumni.rice.edu, Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
In-Reply-To: <47ACED7C.6040907@verizon.net>
Subject: [CR]Re: Why convert a 4-speed Sturmey trigger for ASC use?

This is news to me. A regular SA 4-speed trigger has correct cable pull for an ASC if you just use positions 1, 2, and 4? Or is it a case of just sorta good enough to work?

John Clay
Tallahassee, Floriad
USA


--- Harvey Sachs wrote:


> John Clay wrote:
> >I need to convert a Sturmey 4-speed trigger for
> use
> >with an ASC hub. I've heard that instructions
> exist
> >but haven't been able to find any. Does anyone
> here
> >know where I can find them, have a copy or know
> >basically how it's done?
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> It's sort of funny what folks can get used to. I
> first set up my ASC
> maybe a quarter century ago, with the 4-speed
> trigger I had lying
> around. Never bothered to open it up and file off
> the extra notch. It's
> easy enough to shift from "2" all the way up to "4".
> If you forget, you
> wind up in a real "neutral:" there is a very narrow
> freewheeling gate
> between top and second. I don't recommend using
> this, of course.
>
> I'm not apathetic, I just don't care. :-)
>
> harvey sachs
> mcLean va
>

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