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| | New Sturmey Archer ASC on the way? I don't know if anyone else responded to the link on Sheldon's site to email SunRace about a possible new version of the Sturmey Archer ASC hub, but if you did you might also have received the following email. Quote:
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| | Got this in an email from Jack from the Bike Show. http://sunrace-sturmeyarcher.blogspo...r-3-speed.html ![]() Quote:
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| | I'll be honest, although I am hankering after one of these SunRace Sturmey Archer 3spd fixed hubs, it just seems a little bit against the spirit of the purity of fixed and singlespeed cycling. True, it is fixed, but surely the purpose of single cog riding is that there is so much less to go wrong? How many people will feel qualified to take apart this 3spd hub and repair it themselves? At the moment, with singlespeed cycling, there is really only the chain, cog and chainring to worry about in the drivetrain. I think its a great idea, but also, with more things to go wrong................................? |
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| | All news is on the Sturmey Archer blog: http://www.sunrace-sturmeyarcher.blogspot.com/ They say that they're aiming for a March launch. |
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| | guess what? Condor have them in stock, for £130, i thought that a reasonably good price, the guy there show it to me on the Tempo, work brilliantly, but it's not entirely fixed thought, it got a bit of 'freewheel' back and forth but that it. I'm thinking about getting it for long distance ride, need to inform scott about it. |
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| | I got a look and spoke to the rep too, who showed me the diagram from the catalogue when i complained they didn't have any opened up to display the insides. Apparently they are based on the current 5-speed hubs. If i remember correctly, they have a single planetary gear stage with compound planets, two suns and one ring. The planet cage drives the shell in all gears. In top gear the clutch connects from the sprocket to the face of the planet cage to give direct drive. In the other two gears the clutch engages with the ring, and one sun or the other is held fixed to the axle to give the two ratios. In top gear I seem to remember there was one or two degrees of backlash. i don't know about the other gears but there is probably a little more. |
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