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Ye Olde Favorite the Raleigh Twenty
Now that I have one I'm cosidering doing a little hopping up. Although I'd
love to do something radical al' la Sheldon Brown. I'm thinking something along a "product improved" Raliegh Twenty and keep it a workhorse bike as the Raleigh engineers had intended her to be. Specifically I was thinking lighter rims, Shimano Nexus seven speed hub, and dispensing with the front Dynohub entirely. As well as racks front and rear for hauling groceries or other cargo; however, after looking at some of the other Twenty's on E-bay and studing the racks available from the large mail order houses I'm wondering how would I go about putting racks on it. The racks I've seen attached to other twenties on E-bay look like they were specially designed for the twenty (and lets face it if they were it means they have been out of production at least 25 years.). Starting with the racks are there any suggestions as to where to find racks that would work? Anyone still making racks that would mount to the Raliegh 20 frame and front fork? As for the later phases of the project the improvement of the powertrain who sells Nexus Hubs and how much would a package of the the Nexus hub, a fron't hub, a set of good alloy 20 X 1.75 rims be with enough spokes to build up the new wheels? A partial reason for swapping out the hubs is that the Sturmey Archer 3 speed hub has something wrong with one of it's speeds (doesn't engauge) and although I'd love to get the dynohub working my twenty came without the front light and based on past discussions on here the dynohub light isn't much of a light to begin with so I rather save a pound or two and run a conventional front hub and do lights another way. |
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Sheldon Brown wrote: Getting Dynohubs to work well with small wheels is just about impossible, nobody makes a suitable bulb for that application. I used to have a Moulton with a Dynohub, and every bulb I tried either gave a dim yellow glow, or burned out on the first downhill. A potential option for this setup (expensive, but may be worth it) is a Schmidts hub, built specifically for 20" wheels: http://www.peterwhitecycles.com/Schmidt-Lumotec.asp I'd love to build one into a hot rodded Raleigh Twenty- once I win the lottery, that is. Jeff |
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John L. Lucci wrote:
Now that I have one I'm cosidering doing a little hopping up. Although I'd love to do something radical al' la Sheldon Brown. I'm thinking something along a "product improved" Raliegh Twenty and keep it a workhorse bike as the Raleigh engineers had intended her to be. Specifically I was thinking lighter rims, Shimano Nexus seven speed hub, and dispensing with the front Dynohub entirely. As well as racks front and rear for hauling groceries or other cargo; however, after looking at some of the other Twenty's on E-bay and studing the racks available from the large mail order houses I'm wondering how would I go about putting racks on it. The racks I've seen attached to other twenties on E-bay look like they were specially designed for the twenty (and lets face it if they were it means they have been out of production at least 25 years.). Starting with the racks are there any suggestions as to where to find racks that would work? Anyone still making racks that would mount to the Raliegh 20 frame and front fork? As for the later phases of the project the improvement of the powertrain who sells Nexus Hubs and how much would a package of the the Nexus hub, a fron't hub, a set of good alloy 20 X 1.75 rims be with enough spokes to build up the new wheels? A partial reason for swapping out the hubs is that the Sturmey Archer 3 speed hub has something wrong with one of it's speeds (doesn't engauge) and although I'd love to get the dynohub working my twenty came without the front light and based on past discussions on here the dynohub light isn't much of a light to begin with so I rather save a pound or two and run a conventional front hub and do lights another way. While you consider all those options, what's the symptom exactly on your AW (AWC?) hub? Perhaps we can advise you such that you can ride it while arranging the modifications. -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org Open every day since 1 April, 1971 |
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Sheldon Brown wrote:
Probably the best option is a seatpost mount rack. There are lots of those out there. See: http://harriscyclery.net/site/page.cfm?PageID=49&Category=86&Brands=All&type=T Hi Sheldon, Your link to the seat post racks sounded like just the think for my little SpeedPro from Dahon. I was very interested in this rack from Delta: http://harriscyclery.net/site/page.c...=49&SKU=RK7506 It's carrying capacity is amazing. I can hardly wait to haul all that stuff on the little dahon folder. Does it also have a class III receiver hitch so I can tow my airstream trailer? That would save me a fortune in gas bills, insurance and payments on a Yukon or big 3500 van. thanks man, Randy "towing capacity" Gore :-) |
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