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It wasn’t ‘it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a man on a 10K road bike to have both properly indexed gears and bottle cages that actually hold onto bottles’?
M_V-
tsk these modern bible interpretations.
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Your Raleigh 20 looks a lot more purposeful than it did when it left the factory.
If you've seen my Sunbeam photos in the old bike thread, I think you can see there's a connection in that we're both trying to make a useable bike from a run of the mill starting point.
I guess your Sturmey hub is an AW (same on the Sunbeam). If so you did well to manage in a group with the 25% down 33% up which it gives. I've found that it's possible to get by reasonably well on my own, but the gaps are far too big to cope with a bunch situation. You would probably find an AM or FM to be superior, but since you're evidently strong enough to cope, using the basic AW makes it more annoying for the owners of the posh bikes!
Do you know how much the Raleigh weighs?
tmevans
clubman
‘it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a man on a 10K road bike to enter the kingdom of God’ i believe that’s Luke