How did it break? Well, I did some things with it that I arguably should not have: http://www.flickr.com/photos/edrabbit/5682255789/in/faves-sofauxboho/ Which lead to problems: http://www.flickr.com/photos/edrabbit/5682260605/in/set-72157626511121539/
While resist-pedaling on the downslope of one of those mounds my S3X low gear (a 43 or so incher) let go. A couple miles later my middle gear gave up as well, leaving me with only top. The shop I bought it from said that one should be able to skid the rear wheel on that hub and replaced it with an entirely new hand-built wheel. It seems either the original hub was bad, it was adjusted wrong, or the cable stretched and it went out of adjustment. My money is on that last one. So far the new one has about 40 miles on it and it has behaved well so far, though I'll admit I'm rather babying at the moment. Just remember that the rougher you're going the more certain you have to be that your hub is adjusted perfectly. Oh, and remember these things have significant drive train lash. If you buy one without knowing that you'll likely be disappointed. But I like mine! Reed On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Philip Williamson < philip.william...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Reed, how did your S3X break? I was just looking at doing some > silly things to mine, which got me wondering if there was a gear that > would be too low for the internals. > > Philip > > Philip Williamson > www.biketinker.com > > On May 7, 2:59 pm, Reed Kennedy <atinyt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > After breaking my first Sturmey S3X three speed fix hub I was super > excited > > by the prospect of replacing it with a S2c duomatic kick shift hub. I > went > > out to Mission Bicycles here in San Francisco where they even had a > > S2-hubed-bike (the one without the coaster brake) in stock. > > > > They were happy to let me try it out, but they warned it was not the most > > user friendly of things. Hard to shift, and hard to know if you shifted, > > they said. > > > > Pah! I said. I'm sure an old hand like myself will have no troubles! And > off > > I went. > > > > Indeed, by the time I got back (a couple miles later) I could shift > reliably > > 50-75% of the time. I was feeling quite accomplished. > > > > Then I thought: How much do I really want a heavy, inefficient, difficult > to > > operate, potentially fragile hub that only gives a 38% range? > > > > No Duomatics for me, thanks. I'll stick with either a true single speed > or a > > bigger range, like a Sturmey 5 or a Alfine 8. > > > > (Or, if you are looking for something silly, a S3X. My second one now has > 30 > > miles on it and is doing fine so far.) > > > > Best, > > Reed > > > > On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 5:12 PM, jandrews_nyc <jasonaschwa...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > > > Anyone planning to go new or n.o.s. 2 speed kickback hub on their new > > > Simpleone? > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com > . > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
