For the love of English 3 speeds...
02-06-17, 04:41 PM
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I think the consensus is like the french, "Soo-pear-buh", with the last syllable very soft. No hemi engines with 6 pack Weber carbs.
edit Holley carbs?
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02-06-17, 06:28 PM
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Superbe translates as both beautiful and magnificent.
An apt description.
An apt description.
02-06-17, 08:28 PM
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I will be joining the English 3 speed club soon Have this on lay away Had $5k in medical bills in the last few months so it has to wait until tax check gets here .
02-06-17, 08:53 PM
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I love the 1945 video on how a bicycle is made. They refer to lugs as brackets. Suddenly it makes sense: the lowest lug is the bottom bracket! In time, the term morphed into referring to the mechanism (bearing) inside the bottom bracket, and the lug -- formerly the bottom bracket -- is now called the bottom bracket shell.
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02-07-17, 12:33 AM
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Thanks, man. I may split the difference between full French pronunciation (cuz I'm worried it could come out like I'm playing a Monte Python character) and the 4-barrel Holly on a monster Mopar hemi yeehah....somewhere between "pur" and "pear" and not too much "b". Gotcha.
02-07-17, 12:07 PM
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Thanks, man. I may split the difference between full French pronunciation (cuz I'm worried it could come out like I'm playing a Monte Python character) and the 4-barrel Holly on a monster Mopar hemi yeehah....somewhere between "pur" and "pear" and not too much "b". Gotcha.
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Seriously, there's a lot of stuff on this thread, but it's hard to dig through to find it all, unless you had the hours and hours and hours to sift through all the posts. Maybe a "Best of..." of this thread is in order?
02-07-17, 04:03 PM
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I remember an earlier discussion of this movie where an older Brit mentioned that when this was filmed in early/mid 50's Britain was still on war-time level food rationing. I think they were eating all they could get their hands on!
02-09-17, 05:39 AM
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When I first came to England in 1978, I remember people eating breakfast fried in lard, plates and pans cleaned with "doorstop" wedges of bread. Cream cakes, biscuits and a constant stream of sweat tea, Mountains of mashed potatoes. Suet and Yorkshire puddings - more bread products roasted or boiled in lard. Pork pies and Cornish pasties... And rare it was to see a fat person.
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Back then, people, especially children, were far more active than they are today. I'm getting old now. Sometimes I feel like I fell asleep and woke up on a different planet. I lived on my bike. Rode to school on my bike, delivered newspapers on my bike, hung out with my friends and rode our bikes everywhere. Life is different today.
In this digital world, we don't even have to get up off the couch to change the channel on the TV, go shopping, obtain food, pay our bills... modern conveniences brought to you by your technocrat overlords. This keeps us docile and easier to control.
I think that is why we find comfort in these old, English 3-speeds. They are remnants of a world we want desperately to hold onto, even as it slips through our fingers.
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02-09-17, 11:34 PM
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I thank everyone for their advice on lowering the gears on my Raleigh Sports, It was completed this weekend and was not difficult. It rides like a dream. I put a 22 T sprocket in and climbs hills much better.
02-10-17, 03:30 AM
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You can go even larger back there. Shimano Nexus IG hubs (at least the early ones) used the same three-lobe pattern on the mounting hole and interchange with the SA. I have a 24T on my Sports and there may be others available.
02-10-17, 06:47 AM
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We are very fortunate that so many choices of 3 splined dished cogs are available for Sturmey Archer hubs. With a choice of 16T to 24T, overall gearing can be adapted to suit anyone's needs and helps make these old 3 speeds very practical everyday riders.
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International Bike to Work Day....
nearly 40 degrees here in Minnesota. A friend's dog was licking the salt off my tires this morning.
nearly 40 degrees here in Minnesota. A friend's dog was licking the salt off my tires this morning.
02-10-17, 01:53 PM
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My clever mechanic friend clamped an SA cog to a 22 hyperglide cog. He traced it out and then demel-tooled the excess metal and cleaned it up in about 20 minutes. I have one, it works fine with narrow or wide chains and sounds easy to do. I'll try it next time I need a big one.
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My clever mechanic friend clamped an SA cog to a 22 hyperglide cog. He traced it out and then demel-tooled the excess metal and cleaned it up in about 20 minutes. I have one, it works fine with narrow or wide chains and sounds easy to do. I'll try it next time I need a big one.
Sturmey Archer 1/8" 22t Coaster Brake Cog | eBay
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02-10-17, 02:14 PM
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Why bother with that when you can get a 22T for six bucks?
Sturmey Archer 1/8" 22t Coaster Brake Cog | eBay
Sturmey Archer 1/8" 22t Coaster Brake Cog | eBay
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02-10-17, 03:38 PM
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I offered to give Dan Burkhart a S/A hub recently for the cost of shipping. The best price I could get was in excess of $36 USD. At the same time I can buy 2 tires from Ribble via Royal Mail for $6.38 USD shipping. What is the deal shipping stuff over our border with Canada?
02-10-17, 04:12 PM
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I offered to give Dan Burkhart a S/A hub recently for the cost of shipping. The best price I could get was in excess of $36 USD. At the same time I can buy 2 tires from Ribble via Royal Mail for $6.38 USD shipping. What is the deal shipping stuff over our border with Canada?
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