Joined: Aug 2009
Posts: 4,955
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From: Central Maryland
Bikes: 1949 Hercules Kestrel, 1950 Norman Rapide, 1970 Schwinn Collegiate, 1972 Peugeot UE-8, 1976 Raleigh Sports, 1977 Raleigh Sports, 1977 Jack Taylor Tandem, 1984 Davidson Tandem, 2010 Bilenky "BQ" 650B Constructeur Tandem, 2011 Linus Mixte
For those that aren't familiar with this hub, you need a rather small chainring to accommodate this hub because of the 1:1 first gear. If you want to keep the original character of the bike, dump the SA 8-speed hub and get a 5-speed instead. As much as I like this hub, I don't like the fact that I need to use a small front chainring. I wish SA would re-engineer this so that the hub has underdrive and overdrive.
Also, IIRC, the largest cog available for this hub is a 25t, so going to anything larger on the rear is not going to be possible.