Originally Posted by
JonBailey
About 4 years latter, and after about 5,000 miles, the gears in the hub wore out and it was reduced to scra .
About 40 years later many thousands of 3spd Schwinns equipped OEM with Sturmey Archer hubs are still in service, some overhauled with readily available parts from dealer stock some still soldering on w/ no more than an occasional sip of oil every so often over the decades of use. The Chicago Schwinns were never designed to be disposable and "Schwinn Approved" was a badge of reliability unequaled by American bicycle manufacturing, or importing "back when".
Sour grape tinted glasses produce a distorted view of the past.
-Bandera