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• #27
Would you have to use these hubs on a road frame for the vertical dropouts and cable guides?
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• #28
Not necessary, the Condor Tempo doesn't have any cable guide and such (it have horiztonal dropout, it's a singlespeed/fixed wheel bicycle), so it's doable to put it on a track frame.
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• #29
saw the hub in the flesh at the cycle show, they look ok, not too bulky. spoke to the rep who said they are available now for £250 with bar end lever (silver and black only). He also was a little cagey when i asked him how they would hold up to skid stops.
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• #30
I got a look and spoke to the rep too, who showed me the diagram from the catalogue when i complained they didn't have any opened up to display the insides.
Apparently they are based on the current 5-speed hubs. If i remember correctly, they have a single planetary gear stage with compound planets, two suns and one ring. The planet cage drives the shell in all gears. In top gear the clutch connects from the sprocket to the face of the planet cage to give direct drive. In the other two gears the clutch engages with the ring, and one sun or the other is held fixed to the axle to give the two ratios. In top gear I seem to remember there was one or two degrees of backlash. i don't know about the other gears but there is probably a little more.
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• #31
anyone know if these are actually £130 in Condor? They are £248 from Spa so Condor's price seems very cheap (can't phone them from work).
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• #32
If they are £130 in Condor, they are selling them at a loss as they cost more than that from the wholesaler. Spa Cycles £248 sounds more realistic. If you want one, we'll have one at Chalfont Jumble on Saturday. Might even bring one down ready built into a wheel.
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• #33
Internal hub gears are for people with lunch pails.
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• #34
If they are £130 in Condor, they are selling them at a loss as they cost more than that from the wholesaler. Spa Cycles £248 sounds more realistic. If you want one, we'll have one at Chalfont Jumble on Saturday. Might even bring one down ready built into a wheel.
Can't make the Chalfont jumble and not sure yet if I really want one, but thanks for the offer.
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• #35
anyone know if these are actually £130 in Condor? They are £248 from Spa so Condor's price seems very cheap (can't phone them from work).
My fault, I may have misheard (which isn't the first time), I think they're selling for £180.
£250 seemed pretty steep.
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• #36
Internal hub gears are for people with lunch pails.
Is that like a bucket of sandwiches?
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• #37
No, its like this...
And then you go and put on the wireless and listen to air traffic controllers or something.
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• #38
Hi, has anybody seen the 2-speed fixed hub on e-bay? Certainly looks well made although the seller does mention "Backlash" so track stnds might be a little difficult. Apparently its based on the Sheldon Brown method, or possibly stuff put out years ago by Sturmey-Archer. Its up for £25.00 so I might have a punt at it, although of course now I've blown it by telling everybody!
Coppi.
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• #39
I have seen it in the show and the rep told me that it will be a bit less than a kilo for the hub...more than two hubs together!!!!
yes, backlash, thanks, I didn't know a terminology for that.