I know that this list could not care less about hub gears, but I'm chuffed, as they say. I got a used but still vg (per the seller with high rating; must disassemble and see for myself; has 50 or 60 years of dried lubricant inside) Holy Grail of hub gears, a 1950 ASC, missing proprietary shifter, but with the sole other SA shifter that can be modified (and may have been modified already; have question in to seller) for the peculiar cable pull required by this hub.
It is a backup/eventual parts donor for the NOS one currently in use in the Matthews Riv Road errand clone that was modified by Aaron in Seattle with a modern, 32-hole aluminum shell (with properly modern thick flanges!) and threaded driver (instead of proprietary 12-spline driver for very rare 1/8" proprietary SA cogs) for either Surly fixed cog (currently 17 t 3/32") or ss freewheel. I've been riding this hub instead of the earlier AM because it has better ratios: direct/high/3rd, 90%/underdrive/2nd, and 75%/underdrive/1st, for 72"/65"/54" instead of the AM's freewheel 75"/115% overdrive/third, 65" direct/second, and 56" 86.54%/underdrive/first. The 3rd-2nd gap is better on the ASC. And it's all silver! With aluminum shell. Just made a short but very pleasant detoured grocery run, carrying home 39 lb in front and rear Ortlieb roll-tops. I know you don't care, but I do and I had to crow. Over and out. -- Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Executive resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, letters, and other writing services ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *When thou didst not, savage, k**now thine own meaning,* *But wouldst gabble like a** thing most brutish,* *I endowed thy purposes w**ith words that made them known.* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgsY4PPWpDSm4EwaAmFHmP_1E325vSrFHA4YuYzbEMoxRA%40mail.gmail.com.
