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Frame sizes for Racers
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irideiam
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'63 Racer
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'63 Racer
jimbo53
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I see the Racer is available with a Sturmey Archer TCW 3 speed coaster hub. Includes front caliper but no rear caliper. What a shame you have to pay extra (even at $4.00 a ripoff, IMHO) for SA's most crappy hub when the classic AW 3 speed with calipers on both ends would be so much better. I would convert any TCW equipped bike with AW/2 caliper package in a heartbeat. Recently worked on a 63 Huffy Sportsman equipped with a TCW/one caliper setup and swapped out to a AW/2 caliper setup without batting an eye.
Eric Amlie
Wore out three sets of tires already!
BroCraig
Finally riding a big boys bike
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SirMike1983
Riding a '38 Autocycle Deluxe
Frame size: I entirely agree about looking at the gap between the down and top tubes where they join the head tube. The gap will tell you the frame size. That's how I do it, and it usually right, but sometimes the picture is from a tricky angle. The 21 inch is the "standard" size and the frame geometry makes it pretty adaptable to different rider sizes.
Sturmey TCW: mainly a way of trying to get a foot in the door of the US market. The US bike market was biased in favor of coaster brakes. Sturmey knew this as far back as the 1910s. Sturmey saw the TCW as a means of making the bikes more acceptable to consumers in the US who had to have a coaster brake. Online, the TCW is often passed-off as totally defective. It's certainly imperfect, but I've fixed and used them on several bikes in the past. Sturmey knew of the flaws in the hub and revised the design more than once. I agree that you only use the TCW if you absolutely have to use one. It's better in the long run to convert to an AW with a rear caliper brake. But if you absolutely have to do a re-creation or the bike just has to have a TCW, it's certainly doable.
Sturmey TCW: mainly a way of trying to get a foot in the door of the US market. The US bike market was biased in favor of coaster brakes. Sturmey knew this as far back as the 1910s. Sturmey saw the TCW as a means of making the bikes more acceptable to consumers in the US who had to have a coaster brake. Online, the TCW is often passed-off as totally defective. It's certainly imperfect, but I've fixed and used them on several bikes in the past. Sturmey knew of the flaws in the hub and revised the design more than once. I agree that you only use the TCW if you absolutely have to use one. It's better in the long run to convert to an AW with a rear caliper brake. But if you absolutely have to do a re-creation or the bike just has to have a TCW, it's certainly doable.
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