It's a Sturmey Archer hub in a Raleigh frame with Ammaco parts. I bought the Ammaco for its 650A mudguards. Since then I've also had the saddle, wheelset, bottom bracket and crankset from it. It was quite a good buy for a tenner.Sounds like a Sturmey Archer, possibly on a brommie
Wonderful book. In the days before the internet it was my only teacher. I learned literally everything I knew from that book. I still don't know much more. That's why I struggle to fix anything on my bike that was introduced after the mid 80s.
Has it been updated, I wonder, to include sections on new kinds of bottom bracket, threadless headsets, indexed gears, cassettes and freehubs, disk brakes ...
I think we all had a copy of that book when we were young !!Some reading might help.
I read this book multiple times as a young cyclist. I found it very useful.
https://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/title/richard's-bicycle-book/
So how do i get this tech wizardry into my life?Some techno-trickery.
It’s quite annoying at first but you get used to it.
Basically if you’re on the big ring at the front and you go up the cassette too far it drops the front down to the small ring and moves the rear to find the same gear.It’s to stop chain crossover etc.
I can choose manual(normal) Syncro or semi-syncro.
Once you’ve had it you won’t want to go back!
I could buy a new bike for that money!😅You need an upgrade to Shimano DI2, that'll set you back around £1000 + fitting extras
IfYou need an upgrade to Shimano DI2, that'll set you back around £1000 + fitting extras
Worth every pennyI could buy a new bike for that money!😅
It's a Sturmey Archer hub in a Raleigh frame with Ammaco parts. I bought the Ammaco for its 650A mudguards. Since then I've also had the saddle, wheelset, bottom bracket and crankset from it. It was quite a good buy for a tenner.
A bit like when I fitted a lower bottom gear to my bike. Going up the hills was so much better, more comfortable and I felt I could do more before I ran out of steam. Careful examination of my ride stats showed, of course, that part of this improvement involved going up them more slowly
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Worth every penny
SRAM Etap is totally wireless but around £1600 but easier to fit than Di2.
If Shimano hasn’t gone wireless I’ll be fitting Etap to my next build.
Probably not economical to fit Di2 to a cheaper bike but not unheard of!
I’m tempted to fit it to my Winter bike....if I can cobble together a cheapish 2nd hand bundle of Di2 bits