Originally Posted by
wphamilton
I have also always been under the impression that it was not designed for use by trained athletes and that they would probably kill it. Granted this was from conversations I heard 40 years ago when a buddy of my shop's mechanic used to come over after hours and talk bikes. The hubs may well have changed since then. (You might have heard of my mechanic's buddy, local guru/eccemtric Sheldon Brown.) Oh, and this conjecture that the Sturmey-Archer was not up to serious use by athletes was made years before anyone dreamed of skidding as a routine stopping practice. (With sewps? $$!!)
Ben