Riders reported in the cycling periodicals of the day of covering up to 50,000 miles on their Sturmey-Archer three speeds with a hub maintenance regimen of only adding a little oil through the hub's oil port on a regular basis. They claimed they never opened the hub shells during this period of use. This was around 100 years ago. See "devolution".


It's actually pretty easy to add a lubricator to a new SRF3.

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