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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.

It's just dumbing stuff down again, like measuring area in football pitches, volume in Olympic swimming pools, height in Eifel towers etc when there is a perfectly good metric system in place.

If you get a word wrong you're miles out....flawed system trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist.

What if one party is dyslexic

People have successfully using long lat for ages....why change?

There's two ways to do this, the easy way which mounts the rack to eyelets at the bottom of the fork and then clamps round the fork. EBay sell these. However this adds the weight in the wrong place and adds to the unsprung weight. The better way to add a front rack is so it's suspended. Tubus used t...

A pal & I went cycle touring on some nice old touring bikes and some fast descents produced smoke and little stopping power from very old brake blocks. For what they cost replace them....we did!

When I was a lad my new touring bike had 36/52 up front and a 6 speed 14-28, that was a touring bike and an improvement over the touring bike I toured Scotland on with 42/52 and 5 speed 14-28

The point is you can tour on anything but I now need much lower gears!

Looks like one that fits onto the brake bosses which are not very strong. Ok if you don't overload it.

Home made welded additions onto flat bars to make bullhorns works well for me. I have ergo grips in the normal place as are brakes and gear levers, then bullbar additions

That same woman when talking to the policeman he said "don't answer that" she replied "it's important"......

Anyone see last weeks cyclist scurge program? They showed a policeman riding a bicycle in full yellow police gear. He was stopping motorists (with police motorcyclist) who passed too close, the highway code says 1.5m clearance.

Well I'm still on 5 & 6 speed freewheels