Re: [CR]Sheldon Brown and his planetary love of Sturmey Archer

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From: "Greg Groth" <ggroth@telocity.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
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Subject: Re: [CR]Sheldon Brown and his planetary love of Sturmey Archer
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 14:38:49 -0500


>Another flash-from-the-past: who else out there went to
>Schwinn School? Three days of taking stuff apart and
>putting it back together. I had a leg up because I had
>already done coaster brakes and internally geared hubs
>(did not endear me to the boys ;-)

Schwinn school grad from 1990. (Had to go for the franchise requirements) Our instructor, who shall remain nameless to protect the innocent, would give us instructions on mundane tasks such as assembling an AW3 hub, tell us to do it 4 or 5 times, and then walk out of the room foor an hour ot two (to flirt with the receptionist it was believed). I would perform the assembly once, and then wander around the classroom sticking my nose in all the various parts drawers. My freind who accomponied me was too honest and dilligently performed his assignment 5 times every time. The third person in the room that day would only do his task once or twice as well. When our instructor came back he would ask how many times we did the task - The third individual and myelf would respond 5 times. My friend wouldn't lie and would honestly reply 3 or 4. The instructor (I believe a former drill seargent) would stand behind him glaring until he finished it 5 times. My friend also had a love of coffee and would be pretty strung out by the afternoon. When he tried to assemble the AW3 hub under the instructors glare, the pawl springs were flying every which way. It was fun watching the veins pooping out of the instructors head.

Greg Groth Who was out riding his SA alloy hub equipped cruiser this past weekend.