Originally Posted by bikemeister
Don't go the twist grip route - I snapped the gear pin off inside the hub!
Woah, that's interesting.
I turned my '91 Schwinn Frontier into an "English 3-spd" with a '73 AW hub and a '67 S-A twist-grip shifter. I have noticed with this setup going from third to second twisting the shifter gets real hard where it doesn't seem to want to go into gear and then I have to let up slightly on the pressure for a moment and then it goes into second gear without a problem. And yes I'm letting off on the pedals, too.
I figure that if I keep shifting this way I shouldn't have any problems as long as I don't force anything!
I have also heard, I think from Sheldon Brown, that the British club racers back in the fourties and fifties never stood up on thier pedals when hammering in top gear because there was always a possibility of the hub slipping out of gear.