Sturmey-Archer trigger shifter mounting

I've taken my old Raleigh Record Sprint (a sport-tourer from the mid-'80s)
to my friendly LBS for a rebuild. Since I already have a derailleur bike,
and I'm too fat/weak to ride fixed, I'm turning it into a 3-speed with a
Sturmey-Archer AW hub. (shoutout here to rbm stalwart Dane Buson--thanks
for the hub D!)

Anyway. I'm going to put mustache bars on it, and am thinking about where
to mount the trigger shifter. Has anyone tried mounting a sturmey-archer
trigger shifter on a stem?

-Luigi de Guzman

http://ouij.livejournal.com

On Jun 16, 10:01 pm, Luigi de Guzman wrote:
I've taken my old Raleigh Record Sprint (a sport-tourer from the mid-'80s)
to my friendly LBS for a rebuild. Since I already have a derailleur bike,
and I'm too fat/weak to ride fixed, I'm turning it into a 3-speed with a
Sturmey-Archer AW hub. (shoutout here to rbm stalwart Dane Buson--thanks
for the hub D!)

Anyway. I'm going to put mustache bars on it, and am thinking about where
to mount the trigger shifter. Has anyone tried mounting a sturmey-archer
trigger shifter on a stem?

-Luigi de Guzman

http://ouij.livejournal.com

If I can mount a bell to a quill stem, then you can do the same with a
trigger shifter. However, there's plenty of unused room on a moustache
bar in the stem area that seems more logical to me. My S/A bike has a
high tech system where I can never leave the grip, yet shift AND ring
my red bell at the same time. It's breathtaking!

On Jun 16, 11:01 pm, Luigi de Guzman wrote:
I've taken my old Raleigh Record Sprint (a sport-tourer from the mid-'80s)
to my friendly LBS for a rebuild. Since I already have a derailleur bike,
and I'm too fat/weak to ride fixed, I'm turning it into a 3-speed with a
Sturmey-Archer AW hub. (shoutout here to rbm stalwart Dane Buson--thanks
for the hub D!)

Anyway. I'm going to put mustache bars on it, and am thinking about where
to mount the trigger shifter. Has anyone tried mounting a sturmey-archer
trigger shifter on a stem?

-Luigi de Guzman

http://ouij.livejournal.com


I think those older S-A shifters work best on the curved section of
the handlebar (look at where it's situated on just about any 3-speed
bike, on the curve just past the brake lever). I've used one of these
on a straight section of bar-end, and found that the lever can bottom
out on the bar. This can result in the hub not always clicking into
1st gear, and it also makes it harder to flick the lever into 2nd gear
(though this is easier to do with the later black plastic lever ends,
as opposed to the old flat bare metal ones). So I imagine you'd have
the same issue mounting it on a stem.

Also, these shifters (like many others) are made to just fit the
diameter of a handlebar, and many stems may be the wrong size. If
you're willing to use a modern S-A shifter there are various ones made
now (trigger, gripshift, etc) that could fit your new bars. Check out
http://www.sturmey-archer.com/hubs_3spd_AW.php and click on "view
shifters".

Cheers,
Mark

Luigi de Guzman wrote:
I've taken my old Raleigh Record Sprint (a sport-tourer from the mid-'80s)
to my friendly LBS for a rebuild. Since I already have a derailleur bike,
and I'm too fat/weak to ride fixed, I'm turning it into a 3-speed with a
Sturmey-Archer AW hub. (shoutout here to rbm stalwart Dane Buson--thanks
for the hub D!)

:-)

Now, if I can just finally get the time to finish my own internal gear
hub project...

Anyway. I'm going to put mustache bars on it, and am thinking about where
to mount the trigger shifter. Has anyone tried mounting a sturmey-archer
trigger shifter on a stem?

I can understand why you'd want something like a cyclocomputer on the
stem, but it would seem physically awkward to have the shifter on the
stem. Of course I was thinking straight up. I suppose mounting it
sideways (if you can manage it) might be usable.

--
Dane Buson -
X windows. Garbage at your fingertips.

wrote:

Also, these shifters (like many others) are made to just fit the
diameter of a handlebar, and many stems may be the wrong size. If
you're willing to use a modern S-A shifter there are various ones made
now (trigger, gripshift, etc) that could fit your new bars. Check out
http://www.sturmey-archer.com/hubs_3spd_AW.php and click on "view
shifters".

Oooh, I haven't seen that before.

Mmmmm, shifter pr0n.

--
Dane Buson -
A billion here, a billion there -- pretty soon it adds up to real money.
-- Sen. Everett Dirksen, on the U.S. defense budget

On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:24:04 -0700, Dane Buson wrote:

Luigi de Guzman wrote:
I've taken my old Raleigh Record Sprint (a sport-tourer from the mid-'80s)
to my friendly LBS for a rebuild. Since I already have a derailleur bike,
and I'm too fat/weak to ride fixed, I'm turning it into a 3-speed with a
Sturmey-Archer AW hub. (shoutout here to rbm stalwart Dane Buson--thanks
for the hub D!)

:-)

Now, if I can just finally get the time to finish my own internal gear
hub project...


What have you got lined up?

Anyway. I'm going to put mustache bars on it, and am thinking about where
to mount the trigger shifter. Has anyone tried mounting a sturmey-archer
trigger shifter on a stem?

I can understand why you'd want something like a cyclocomputer on the
stem, but it would seem physically awkward to have the shifter on the
stem. Of course I was thinking straight up. I suppose mounting it
sideways (if you can manage it) might be usable.

Oh, I was just being speculative. My last m-barred 3-speed had the
trigger at the curve, near the brake lever, but pointing upwards rather
than out.

I may think about mounting a bell on the stem...or finding bells that
thread onto the downtube shifter bosses...

-Luigi

On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:32:02 -0700, Dane Buson wrote:


Mmmmm, shifter pr0n.

Of those, I find the old trigger most appealing.



--
Luigi de Guzman
http://ouij.livejournal.com

On Jun 19, 7:51 pm, Luigi de Guzman wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:32:02 -0700, Dane Buson wrote:
Mmmmm, shifter pr0n.

Of those, I find the old trigger most appealing.

I "triggered" a bit tonight on ole Irene, my candy-apple-red-sparkle-
gayer-than-Robert-Goulet's-moustache bike*, and have to say, the
thumbie looks interesting. The trigger is traditional and cool, but a
bit slow.


*I am not gay, the bike only gives me deep tissue massage.

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 04:56:42 +0000, landotter wrote:

I "triggered" a bit tonight on ole Irene, my candy-apple-red-sparkle-
gayer-than-Robert-Goulet's-moustache bike*, and have to say, the thumbie
looks interesting. The trigger is traditional and cool, but a bit slow.

How fast do you have to be on a three-speed? Back when I was dodging
double-decker buses, triggers seemed quick enough. How's a thumbie faster
than a trigger?

In those days, I rode a Sachs Torpedo, but that's pretty much the same as
a Sturmey-Archer AW. Huge jumps in gearing. Hopping from light to light,
I'd be lucky to move fast enough to click into high gear.

*I am not gay, the bike only gives me deep tissue massage.

Bitch set you up, obviously, same as Mayor Barry.



--
Luigi de Guzman
http://ouij.livejournal.com

Luigi de Guzman wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:32:02 -0700, Dane Buson wrote:


Mmmmm, shifter pr0n.

Of those, I find the old trigger most appealing.

I like the one that looks like a friction shifter best (SLS3N), the rest
are admittedly much uglier than the old style.

--
Dane Buson -
The world really isn't any worse.
It's just that the news coverage is so much better.