On-topic content: Bike in question is the 1999 Joe Starck fixed gear road custom.
Well, a year after I received the 2-speed fixed TF and TC-hub wheels, I finally got the shifter sorted, or so I thought, and I've ridden both hubs briefly and they're pretty nice! TF gives direct and 75% (52/17 X 24.8" wheel = 76" and 57"), TC gives direct 76" and 86.5% or 66". The TF drop is like shifting from a 52 t ring to a 39 t ring while using the 17 t cog. The TF has hardly any lash; it feels like a fixed cog and a well-adjusted chain. The TC has much more slop, but less than the annoying S3X, and the direct-to-2nd gap is far, far more useful. The NOS TF top-tube-mount quadrant shifter pulls a shortish amount of chain and, of course, shifts the TF perfectly. I had hoped it would work as well with the TC, but that hub was modified by having a modern AW 3-spline driver replace the original 12-spline driver for which cogs are very hard to find, all of them 1/8". (I've filed modern 3-spline SA 3/32" cogs to fit the 12-spline TF driver, and I suppose I could re-swap the TC driver, but it's easier to get a new shifter, and I found a NOS SA 3 speed quadrant shifter on British eBay which I hope will arrive this month. The longer pull of the 3 speed shifter ought to allow installation and adjustment to shift the 2-speed TC and perhaps even the TF, since the cable pull from 2nd to 1st is considerably more than that from 3rd to 2nd. Pictures soon, and more ride reports after I ride them more. But what's to report about 2 speeds??? The TC hub was rechromed nicely by a Seattle shop; the TF is 85-year-old NOS (both hubs are dated 1937), and Aaron at Rat City Bikes did the overhauls. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum -- 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/CALuTfgtegzmU1RtO8LkYrv8erjZKeudnmCT9aOvRfErWBdfQOA%40mail.gmail.com.
