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

(Example: Component Manufacturers:Cinelli)

Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 00:15:39 -0800
Subject: Re: [Classicrendezvous] Sturmey Archer SW Hub also SA front hub brake
From: "Tim Fricker" <tymn61@earthlink.net>
To: Sheldon Brown <CaptBike@sheldonbrown.com>, ClassicRendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>


Sheldon-

Okay, I have to ask... "'Q ship' Raleigh Sports"?????

I mean, I know historically what Q ships are, but I don't get the bike application of the term...surely your bike doesn't have camoflaged artillery????

Inquiring minds want to know!

Tim

Tim Fricker tymn61@earthlink.net

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>From: Sheldon Brown <CaptBike@sheldonbrown.com>

>To: Joseph Bender-Zanoni <jfbender@umich.edu>, Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

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

>Date: Tue, Nov 14, 2000, 8:26 PM

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>It's not that they're fragile, but that they tend to skip,

>particularly in high gear. I've got one of 'em myself on a "Q ship"

>Raleigh Sports with a full chaincase and lightweight 27 x 1 wheels.

>I've got it geared pretty high, so I don't wind up using high gear

>all that much.