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Front Axle Nut on S-A Hub Gone. Replacement Halp?

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  • Started 9 years ago by Uberuce
  • Latest reply from kaputnik
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  1. Uberuce
    Member

    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.

    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?

    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.

    Anyway, I need a new one. Where best to go?

    Posted 9 years ago #

  2. amir
    Member

    Sounds like you need locking nuts to thwart this idiot.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  3. chdot
    Admin

    What model?

    Posted 9 years ago #

  4. Uberuce
    Member

    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...

    Posted 9 years ago #

  5. Greenroofer
    Member

    @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..?

    On the basis that one is presumably condorNNNN (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 must be a CCE member. He wasn't...

    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.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  6. Instography
    Member

    If all else fails then I find SJS cycles is the place to go for all kind of Sturmey Archer spares.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  7. kaputnik
    Moderator

    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.

    Given a pedal wrench and quite some force is needed to loosen/slacken these nuts, it's quite some idiot who has done this.

    PM for transfer plans.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  8. Darkerside
    Member

    Something from http://atomic22.com/ ?

    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.

    Something like:

    "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."

    Or hide in the shed with a D-lock...

    Posted 9 years ago #

  9. kaputnik
    Moderator

    @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.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  10. Darkerside
    Member

    That's the gamble you take... I suppose you could find a way to attach the keyhead to your keyring?

    Pricey, but not as pricey as the dynamo they keep safe (or, indeed, the value of an intact Uberuce)

    Posted 9 years ago #

  11. kaputnik
    Moderator

    @darkerside ah but as already noted the Sturmey hubs use proprietary axle diameter and the site only notes options for Rohloff and Alfines.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  12. wingpig
    Member

    "...but not as pricey as the dynamo they keep safe"

    Where are you buying your dynami dynamos 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.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  13. kaputnik
    Moderator

    dynami dynamos dynamoes

    I once made the mistake of asking a lexicographer what the plural of Modus Operandi is.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  14. Darkerside
    Member

    Dynamos, going by the OED on my desk.

    And I've got a SON delux, from my pre-mortgage, pre-marriage, pre-child days.

    Possible a better example would be 'not as pricey as the rear hub gear'!

    Posted 9 years ago #

  15. wingpig
    Member

    Ah. A fancy dynamo.
    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.
    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.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  16. kaputnik
    Moderator

    Culs-de-sac.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  17. wingpig
    Member

    Are they all the ends of the same bag?

    Posted 9 years ago #

  18. Uberuce
    Member

    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.

    Greenrokofer, the fourth parent is not on CCE, but he did
    lend a cargo bike to me couple of years ago for a PY meet.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  19. LaidBack
    Member

    We have ones here.... on a spare wheel for a Paper Bicycle but could use if having any problems.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  20. Greenroofer
    Member

    @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 modi operandorum.

    ...I think they are highly likely to be right.

    Posted 9 years ago #

  21. Uberuce
    Member

    Thanks to Kappers for sorting me out.

    Head teacher has been informed, and the replacement nut will know it's been tightened, this is my vow

    Posted 9 years ago #

  22. kaputnik
    Moderator

    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.

    Posted 9 years ago #

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