Coaster brakes- Cruisers, klunkers and fun havers

sturmy archer

My experience of the performance of Sturmey coasters has not been great and since they are neither cheaper nor more reliable (by any reports I've seen) than a Shimano cb-e110, why bother?

Heatsink or at least the one I have is simply two bolts to affix, the hard part is going to be finding one for sale in the UK. I don't think the guy that made mine does them anymore so you'd probably be looking at importing a Mone one. Maybe try the klunker groups on fb to see if anyone has already done the hard parts of that?

For the bearings and stuff, it's really going to be worth your while learning to work on it yourself. On the Shimano hub (the only one I've taken apart), if you can adjust cup and cone bearings then you will be able to strip and rebuild the hub. The coaster mechanism is the less complex part of the hub.

That said, I ran a Sachs/Sram 3 speed coaster through several winters of commuting and never opened it up. If you aren't doing any long descents or off roading then I imagine you'd get a fairly good service life out of the Shimano and Sachs hubs at least.

Thank you this is v helpful!

I went to the LBS today for a talk about it and they got the callipers out, turns out the sc2 and sc1 have the same shell so they feel pretty confident using the same spokes and all, and said they’d just charge for the labour if I bought the hub in (they couldn’t get the hub)

I feel this might be the most cost effective way of doing it, £100 or so (still refuse to build wheels)

Your story of the Sachs hub is reassuring, as well as stories from other friends, and I suppose all the Dutch coaster bikes out there.

did not end in my bike, but this video is quite usefull, if someone wants to service/tune the cb110.
the longer axles from wheels manufacturing are a bit spendy.

Have 2 cb-e110, neither opened much skidding and arrogant riding achieved. Would not stress it. Also have a Sachs/Sram 3 and its fine but not as good at locking up as the Shimano in my experience. the cheap ones are really shit though, have 4 wheels with completely trashed hubs in the basement waiting to go to the recycling.

here's a good vid on changing the bearings on a cb-e110: https://vimeo.com/133813843

Just have to put on some grips and get some better weather. Frame is an 86’ Diammant with an unknown track fork.

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Hola,
in short:
I build a miniklunker and it is a lot of fun.

I used a shimano cb e110 and modified it to fit in a 135mm rear end. I could have build a 110mm rear end but wanted to have an option to but in a normal hub with disc brakes. (need to add disc tabs... or design them first to fit this rear and the horizontal movement to tension the chain xD)
Also tried a truss fork for the first time.
As I was showing this thing at bespoked Desden and did not have enough time to build the front wheel I wanted I end up using one lying around. As it has a hub dynamo I brazed a clamp to put a lights directly next to it.
I think in the end I had the cheapest build of the hole show. And I am kind of proud that this is the case. :D

Best
Tony

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Now that is rad. (Almost) No wire dyno is all the cool.

Very very cool

Saw it at Bespoked! Such a rad little bike.

Have been seeing this on Insta quite a bit, didn’t realise you were ‘on here’.

Bike is fantastic, love the fork. Rear light mounted with the front is intriguing, you happy with how it works?

very cool. looks like a lot of fun

I am not really doing a lot on here.
Mainly just reading yours and hulsroy's threads and looking at some single speed MTBs :D

Happy with how the light works? I do not really consider it a proper rear light :D it is on the wrong side and my right feet might block all the light...

thanks for all the positive feed back, people