Oh, btw, I have a sad very-little-ridden S3X hub with 130 mm spacing and gold shell, with bar end shifter that I might be tempted to sell or trade for something interesting; contact me if interested. OTOH, I think of using it with that Libertas whose delayed refurbishing so dismays Bill: either 52 X 15 fixed cog for a 94" downhill gear to make up for the horrible slop, and 70" and 59" underdrives -- actually, not bad gaps for fixed; or with a 46 t ring and a 17 t fw for a 73" high and a couple of miscellaneous climbing gears -- 55 and 46"; but these are too close for an ideal climbing range. But probably better to use my second AM hub.
Anyway, I might be persuaded ... On Tue, Sep 5, 2023 at 10:46 AM Patrick Moore <bertin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Talk about multispeeding RoadUnos and Quickbeams has me chucking smugly to > myself as I ride my 2020 Matthews clone of the Riv Curt, but now with that > ne plus ultra and utlima Thule and perfect acme of hub gears, the ASC close > ratio 3 speed fixed hub. I had trouble getting the shifters sorted because > the OEM shifter -- the hub has its own cable pull lengths -- would not hold > 1st/low if the cable was barely slack enough to hold 3rd/high, but > yesterday did some delicate Dremeling to the trigger to give a couple of mm > more cable slack in 3rd, allowing me to tighten it enough to securely hold > 1st. Such is the arcana of IHG shifting. > > But it complements this bike wonderfully. I'd had it built for fixed wheel > riding with an AM hub wheel as an occasional alternative but ended up > riding the AM wheel all the time. But I missed fixed and this hub gives me > the best of all the worlds of interest to me: fixed without horrible slop > as on the sad S3X, and relatively close ratios with sufficient range to be > useful: 48 X 17 with 25 3/5" wheel = 72"/65"/54". And it's easy to shift > back to the AM wheel (freewheel, 75/65/56) if I want to. > > I had the driver (that holds the cog) swapped out for an AW threaded > driver so that I can use both a screw-on fixed cog (currently) or a > screw-on single freewheel. > > I got a very good deal on the new or as-new hub -- as-new except for a > damaged flange on the very thin and light aluminum 40-hole shell. But Aaron > at Rat City Bikes swapped the innards into a modern and sturdier 32-hole > aluminum shell, removed the blue anodizing, and swapped in the threaded > driver. I have the OEM driver but even that takes modern 3-spline SA cogs > and not the now very rare 12-spline ones. Fat Tire at its new Corrales > location has a good wheelbuilder and built a very sturdy wheel out of one > of my EQ21 rims. The nearer and previously privately owned High Desert was > bought by Specialized and their expert wheelbuilder left, so it's good to > have Fat Tire on my side of the river. > > I've got besides the "main" fixed wheel (17/19 t Dingle, 76" and 68" with > qr Phil hub for easy manual shifting) for the 1999 Riv road custom a TC > wheel (76" and 66") and a wonderful TF wheel -- hardly any slop at all (76" > and 57"); it's good to have lower gears as I get older for headwinds and > hills and on days when I am feeling non-energetic. > > -- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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,* > > *Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like* > > *A thing most brutish, I endowed thy purposes* > > *With words that made them known.* > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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,* *Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like* *A thing most brutish, I endowed thy purposes* *With 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/CALuTfgsWRNfkUiQFJCxikNACoe9MM4rLBt2dpjj%3DAziWqgxxyw%40mail.gmail.com.
