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Those Topeak aero bags look much better than my current plastic bag bungee strapped to the bike

Just a thought, my commuter bike uses a 5 speed freewheel with shimano sis click thumb shifters. These have worked faultlessly for donkeys years.
Is the pull length between gears the same as the SA 5 speed hub? (Note I doubt it)

When I was a young lad someone I knew fastened the roller dynamo in front of the rear brake to avoid this. He had to cut the mudguard etc....it solved one problem but created others

I suspect the bean counters got involved

You might as well stick with 3 Brucey, SA aw3 gives 80, 60 + 45 GI which seems more than adequate

Same bike now comes with a 12-28 cassette rather than a 14-34 freewheel

Want more gears? Sturmey Archer do the sx3 hub

Looks good

Brill

I'd have gone with a 5speed SA were it not for the shift options, or lack of a decent one.

It's another job on my long list of to do's

I'll do this one day. Lightweight 2nd hand cheap alloy racing bike, AW3 and 2 rear cogs, dyno hub, rack & mudguards....ideal lightweight commuter.

My commuter bike which i cycled to work on again today has worked flawlessly for years with the 5 speed SIS system

Interesting info thanks Brucey. The SA 3 speed with 2 cogs seems much more reliable an option.....and cheap.

That's very kind of you Brucie, thanks. But all the new SA 5 speeds seem to have issues so I thought about Shimano as an alternative.

I was going to fit a 5 speed SA hub but it seems unlikely now until someone makes a decent gear changer.
So what's the best sensible Shimano igh? There's lots of different ones available.