old schwinn breeze - gears?

Protag Hiro said:

i rescued an old schwinn breeze, it is ancient.

there is a strange peg that has a cable attached to it, ending in some
strange shifter. when the shifter is moved, the peg goes in and ont of
the hub. is this some strange ancient gearing mechanism? have ya seen
one of these before?

Yes, I have.

Quoted message said:

thanks.

You're welcome.

Actually I have no experience or knowledge of hub gearing beyond fifty million
teenaged miles on a Raleigh.

Usually reliable trouble-free systems.

Ron

On 16 Jul 2005 19:02:22 -0700 "Protag Hiro" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

i rescued an old schwinn breeze, it is ancient.

You have a concept of "ancient" that indicates that you are quite
young. ;-)

Quoted message said:

there is a strange peg that has a cable attached to it, ending in some
strange shifter. when the shifter is moved, the peg goes in and ont of
the hub. is this some strange ancient gearing mechanism? have ya seen
one of these before?

This is almost certainly a Sturmey-Archer AW three speed hub and
shifter. They were made from the '30s into the '80s or '90s, and are
probably the most widely made internally geared hub ever made.

If you clean off the rear hub there will be a year and month stamped
within the S-A logo.

Put a few squirts of oil in the oiler to keep it in good running
order.

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Jim Adney [email hidden]
Madison, WI 53711 USA
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Jim Adney said:

On 16 Jul 2005 19:02:22 -0700 "Protag Hiro" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

i rescued an old schwinn breeze, it is ancient.

You have a concept of "ancient" that indicates that you are quite
young. ;-)

I'm with Jim- my first multi-speed bike was a 3-speed Schwinn
Speedster, the "male" counterpart to your Breeze. If I hadn't outgrown
it, I'd probably still be riding it. They were bombproof bikes. Clean
it up, oil the chain, and maybe overhaul the headset and cranks and
it'll be good for another 30 years.

BTW: the Sturmey-Archer hubs are now being produced in Taiwan:
http://sheldonbrown.com/harris/sturmey.html

Sheldon also has good information about the Chicago-built Schwinns:
http://www.sheldonbrown.com/chicago-schwinns.html

Jeff

Protag Hiro said:

i rescued an old schwinn breeze, it is ancient.

there is a strange peg that has a cable attached to it, ending in some
strange shifter. when the shifter is moved, the peg goes in and ont of
the hub. is this some strange ancient gearing mechanism? have ya seen
one of these before?

Probably a three speed gearbox.

Sturmey Archer AW hubs, used on Breeze, have a toggle chain
at the end of the gear cable which slides the clutch.

Shimano F, FA and later models have a pushrod which is moved
by a bellcrank at the end of the gear cable. Not original to
that bike.

How old is "old"?
http://www.yellowjersey.org/photosfromthepast/schwinumber.txt

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