http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Front Axle Nut on S-A Hub Gone. Replacement Halp? en Wed, 13 May 2026 05:48:06 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14112#post-175930 Tue, 16 Dec 2014 11:04:04 +0000 kaputnik 175930@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Glad to be of service. I can't work out how I bought 2 Sturmey hubs yet ended up with 3 pairs of nuts, perhaps one of them came with a variety of options. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14112#post-175911 Mon, 15 Dec 2014 20:06:28 +0000 Uberuce 175911@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thanks to Kappers for sorting me out. </p> <p>Head teacher has been informed, and the replacement nut will know it's been tightened, this is my vow </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14112#post-175909 Mon, 15 Dec 2014 19:34:57 +0000 Greenroofer 175909@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@kaputnik - re your earlier question about the plural of modus operandi, I recall a conversation once with a group of cavers (not the ones you'd normally assume to know this kind of thing) who decided it should be <em>modi operandorum</em>.</p> <p>...I think they are highly likely to be right. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14112#post-175903 Mon, 15 Dec 2014 18:29:05 +0000 LaidBack 175903@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>We have ones here.... on a spare wheel for a Paper Bicycle but could use if having any problems. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14112#post-175861 Mon, 15 Dec 2014 12:23:25 +0000 Uberuce 175861@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I now have a rear hub nut from The Bike Works, which ought to fit. If not my factor will call upon Kaputnik's factor.</p> <p>Greenrokofer, the fourth parent is not on CCE, but he did<br /> lend a cargo bike to me couple of years ago for a PY meet. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14112#post-175852 Mon, 15 Dec 2014 12:03:25 +0000 wingpig 175852@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Are they all the ends of the same bag? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14112#post-175851 Mon, 15 Dec 2014 11:58:02 +0000 kaputnik 175851@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Culs-de-sac. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14112#post-175848 Mon, 15 Dec 2014 11:44:51 +0000 wingpig 175848@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ah. A fancy dynamo.<br /> I think I'd only get a fancy hub gear if I could weld a few (for balance) sturdy metal hoops to the exterior so that a D-lock could also secure the hub as well as the rim and frame.<br /> Given the dearth of actual English language component usage teaching at my school we had to rely on the French teacher to alert those without pedantic parents to the correct pluralisation of multiple-word-things by way of tableaux noirs, poissons rouges and gateaux chocolats. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14112#post-175845 Mon, 15 Dec 2014 11:27:18 +0000 Darkerside 175845@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Dynamos, going by the OED on my desk.</p> <p>And I've got a SON delux, from my pre-mortgage, pre-marriage, pre-child days.</p> <p>Possible a better example would be 'not as pricey as the rear hub gear'! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14112#post-175844 Mon, 15 Dec 2014 11:25:14 +0000 kaputnik 175844@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>dynami dynamos dynamoes</em></p> <p>I once made the mistake of asking a lexicographer what the plural of Modus Operandi is. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14112#post-175841 Mon, 15 Dec 2014 11:15:04 +0000 wingpig 175841@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><blockquote><em>"...but not as pricey as the dynamo they keep safe"</em></blockquote></p> <p>Where are you buying your <strike>dynami</strike> <strike>dynamos</strike> dynamoes? The online shop just said "£49" as the starting price for a front QR skewer, which is a wee bit more than I paid for my DH-3N72. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14112#post-175840 Mon, 15 Dec 2014 11:10:23 +0000 kaputnik 175840@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@darkerside ah but as already noted the Sturmey hubs use proprietary axle diameter and the site only notes options for Rohloff and Alfines. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14112#post-175838 Mon, 15 Dec 2014 10:51:36 +0000 Darkerside 175838@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That's the gamble you take... I suppose you could find a way to attach the keyhead to your keyring?</p> <p>Pricey, but not as pricey as the dynamo they keep safe (or, indeed, the value of an intact Uberuce) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14112#post-175833 Mon, 15 Dec 2014 10:44:03 +0000 kaputnik 175833@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Darkerside those look like a neat idea, but I hope they come with 5x keyheads, as it would be just my luck to get a flat on the day when I'm not carrying the relevant bit with me and be stuck with a tyre I couldn't get off. At the very least I'd want one for my toolbox, one for my keyring, one for my bike repair kit, one in the dish of coins and pens in the front room that random small bits of potentially useful metal always end up in and another spare for emergency wheel unlocking. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14112#post-175831 Mon, 15 Dec 2014 10:41:19 +0000 Darkerside 175831@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Something from <a href="http://atomic22.com/" rel="nofollow">http://atomic22.com/</a> ?</p> <p>I'd also be tempted to put a suitably dramatic note up. I'd be surprised if the villain actually intended to hospitalise someone, so a reality check might stop them.</p> <p>Something like: </p> <p>"Brakes on two cycles have been sabotaged in recent weeks, putting one member of staff in hospital. The police have been informed and CCTV footage passed over. Until the culprit is caught, please check your bikes before leaving."</p> <p>Or hide in the shed with a D-lock... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14112#post-175823 Mon, 15 Dec 2014 09:39:16 +0000 kaputnik 175823@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've got a pair of Sturmey nuts in the box marked "Sturmey bits" that should do the job, came off the X-FD (non-dynosaur version of your hub). Unused.</p> <p>Given a pedal wrench and quite some force is needed to loosen/slacken these nuts, it's quite some idiot who has done this.</p> <p>PM for transfer plans. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14112#post-175812 Sun, 14 Dec 2014 23:16:39 +0000 Instography 175812@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If all else fails then I find SJS cycles is the place to go for all kind of <a href="http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/page/find/?name=sturmey%20archer%20nuts&amp;page=1">Sturmey Archer spares</a>. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14112#post-175807 Sun, 14 Dec 2014 22:50:54 +0000 Greenroofer 175807@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Uberuce Next time we meet you're going to have to tell me who the others are (both on here and in real life) in mini-Greenroofer's class because now I'm confused. I know one because we meet in the playground and at Peter's Yard and at POP, but the other two..?</p> <p>On the basis that one is presumably condor<em>NNNN</em> (sorry, can't remember the sequence of digits) I approached a likely looking chap at SMASCC on Tuesday night thinking that might be them. You'll remember that as the filthy day of rain and sleet when only real hardcore cyclists were out, so surely the guy who'd clearly come some way on a bike and was properly dressed for the weather <strong>must</strong> be a CCE member. He wasn't...</p> <p>There's also one CCE member in micro-Greenroofer's class, and again we meet in the playground, at PY and at POP. Edinburgh really is a small world. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14112#post-175801 Sun, 14 Dec 2014 21:44:17 +0000 Uberuce 175801@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oops,forgot that vital piece. Dynodrum X-FDD. I'd hoped to replace it with a fixie nut, but S-A and their proprietary axle width or thread ways... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14112#post-175800 Sun, 14 Dec 2014 21:40:13 +0000 chdot 175800@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>What model? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14112#post-175799 Sun, 14 Dec 2014 21:35:03 +0000 amir 175799@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Sounds like you need locking nuts to thwart this idiot. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14112#post-175798 Sun, 14 Dec 2014 21:30:19 +0000 Uberuce 175798@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Any of the four CCE/cycley parents of kids at my school(all in the same class,spookily) may know this already, but the gym teacher's bike was sabotaged by front QR loosening some months ago. Poor guy needed hospital. </p> <p>I think they/he/she struck again because the titular nut is missing from mine, and I doubt it could have come off itself. I tightened it up on Thursday, so I am not surehow it got loose enough to be undone by hand. Cold and contraction maybe?</p> <p>I noticed the bike was sounding different on dropping, which I put down to studs in the guard, so I rode from the school to home on the horrendously slippy Lasswade path on Friday before noticing the real cause today, testament to how well the other nut was cranked on.</p> <p>Anyway, I need a new one. Where best to go? </p>