S3X neutral gear?
11-25-10, 02:03 PM
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S3X neutral gear?
I'm a little confused about this. I've heard that there's a "neutral" in between low and middle gear. Is this something that you can hold in place if you were going down a hill and wanted to coast?
11-25-10, 06:17 PM
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There is a spot between first and second in which the hub doesn't engage and does allow you to coast. When I first got my hub, there was a defect in the shifter that allowed the hub to pop out of first into "neutral". This happened a couple of times and trashed the internals of the hub. Luckily, Sturmey Archer were very good about sending me a new shifter and hub guts.
In short, don't get any ideas about being able to shift between fixed and free on the fly. Better to just get a "normal" bike and pedal all the time, until you don't want to.
In short, don't get any ideas about being able to shift between fixed and free on the fly. Better to just get a "normal" bike and pedal all the time, until you don't want to.
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The Sturmey-Archer S3X hub is an "all down" design and has three ratios: 1:0.625, 1:0.75, 1:1; i.e., low, medium, and direct.
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