I found them (as well as 2 NOS leather saddles ) at the St Lawrence Antique Market in Toronto a few months ago. I can fit 12 cans of beer in them .

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Free Sports, Great! With a Dynohub and a full chain case...more great!

I was looking at the chaincase mounting hole on my '61 Raleigh, and found that it was unthreaded(!) Is this usually the case? Do I have to get mine tapped? The Yellow Jersey chaincases available are quite lacking in the mounting hardware department, what exactly do I need to mount one of those?

Received the cotter pins from bike smith today, the shipping was super fast ordered them friday got them today. They are of very high quality. I bought the raleigh high cut and regular cut to make sure one would fit. Now I just need to install them. Ill make it down to my bike shop to see if they can use there cotter press to install them for me, or maybe they will let me do it...

Temperature relief is on it's way! Looks like a fun project, be sure to keep posting.

Wow, looks like both of you scored BIG. Very nice!

Hey guys, the DynoHub is back together and working well. Another question, how much oil should go in a newly cleaned out S/A 3spd hub? I left it wiped out with a rag with a trace of oil on it and grease on the bearings. Drops? A tablespoon? Full?

I also got cotters from Bikesmith, and yes, fast and friendly. Should have my Suberbe back together tomorrow.

There's a huge amount of conflicting and confusing information out there, much of it from Sturmey Archer. I usually squirt some oil on it when I'm putting a hub back together, and then give it a good squirt when it's back on the bike. Half a teaspoon? A teaspoon?

I ran across something once that said two teaspoons, but when I tried that it drooled out all over the place. See Bikesmith's tips.

ISTR reading recently that ​a tablespoon is the correct amount. As for the oil dripping out, I believe that's how these hubs were designed to work.

Skip

Yup. Fresh, clean oil flushes out the dirty old oil and keeps all the parts nice and fresh. Regularly applied oil will keep your hub running smoothly for decades.

The oil running out would also lightly coat the hub shell and spokes protecting them from rust. The only issue being cleanliness and keeping the oil from migrating down to the braking surface.

It ain't British if it ain't leaking oil. There's a difference in dripping out over time and a puddle on the garage floor, though.

I use about two teaspoons tops. One to put it together and one added in the port after assembly.

Aaron :)

Sweet guys, Thanks

And a few drops down the seat tube freshens up gunky old BB's.....add enough and it time it migrates to the cotters making there removal smoooooth and simple :thumb:

I just swore! That is so cool.

Also what can you guys tell me about this bike? It's rusted pretty solid, the bars fold down but that's about it. I assume the hard plastic Huffy seat is not OE! I imagine I'll get to it someday.

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Yes, the beauty--and the beast--is that it just spits out anything it doesn't need. :p

I think some people (ahem, me) go through an "adjustment period" in which they (ahem, I) add rather more than enough and then find it the next morning in a pool all over the rim and tire. :(

I foresee that you will meet a mysterious bicycle repair man. And I see the numbers six and five.

Looks like an RSW. Very cool!

http://sheldonbrown.com/retroraleighs/rsw.html

Yup Raleigh Compact RSW. Interesting little beast and heavy, mine weigh about the same as my full sized Superbe. Available in both folding and non folding versions. Though to the best of my knowledge the only one sold for the US market was the folder.

Aaron :)

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Ahhhh.....the 30 weight enema! Excellent initial procedure for any British Bicycle of a certian age.

Found these old SA wingnuts in my stash of parts today, and thought they'd look good on the Hobbs of Barbican >

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Found some winged SA hub nuts by zombikombi1959, on Flickr

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arrival at work by zombikombi1959, on Flickr

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1934 Raleigh Sports Model by zombikombi1959, on Flickr

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1934 K series SA hub by zombikombi1959, on Flickr

Got the 1934 Raleigh Sports Model up and running last night, and rode it into work today for a shake down run, armed with a bag of spanners for the 4 mile commute. Didn't need them though, bike road great. Didn't even need to adjust the old K type hub!

Very cool Mike! Love the bars and quadrant shifter....love the entire bike, great patina!! Here's its younger cousin by some 27 years. I Still need to find a nice set of Raleigh fenders to replace the Walds.
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Hedge Fund (find):

Out for a midweek ride on the old roadster, stopped at a chicken farm, farmer says "That's an old bike, I've got one just like it been laying in the hedge for last three years, do you want it?"

Me (expecting a 30" BSA Double top-tube at the very least) braving third degree stinging nettles jumps into lush undergrowth to pull out a.........

1959 Raleigh. If it had a chaincase I'd say was a Superbe Dawn Tourist!?





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Very cool, wish our hedge rows yielded bicycles! In the States the story would have ended with a Huffy I'm affraid :(

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Seems like all the English blokes keep stumbling on the coolest English bikes. I don't understand it! :notamused:

Seems we should plant more hedge rows if that's where you find ancient 3 speeds

Look at the size of that tail light!

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