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Welcome to the Vancruisers bike tech section! Here we'll cover how to handle bike maintenance tasks like rebuilding your hubs, finding the ups and downs of internal gear stuff and other bike tech related topics. Specializing in internal gear hubs like Sturmey Archer, Shimano Nexus and others!
Bike Tech Area

Welcome to the Vancruisers Bicycle Tech Area

Here you'll find our Bike Tech Forums, Service Manuals and Bike Tech articles written by our site members. Vancruisers aims to be your one stop site for cruiser bike tech info - come here to share!

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Member's Tech Pages

The great thing about Vancruisers is it's open for EVERYONE to share their knowledge!  When you create any new tech-related content in your home page you can set a few different tech related categories and your work will show up here automatically.  Or you can wait for the web site gnomes to find it (which they will eventually) and set it up for you.  And with that here's what Vancruisers has to share with you!


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Tech Forums

Vancruisers Tech Talk! Use these forums to ask tech questions or share bike building ideas.


Coaster Brake Tech Talk

Got a coaster brake problem? Squeals and squeaks? This is the place!

Coaster Brake Tech Talk
 Sachs Torpedo / Komet Super by bhughes, May 24, 2009 11:20 PM
Rode my Hampton today for the first time in ohhh... a year? The Hampton has a Komet Super (otherwise known as a Sachs Torpedo), one of my favorite single ...
 Coaster Brake Teardown by bhughes, Apr 15, 2009 07:16 PM
Hey, just a quick post to get things going! This Page is the Shimano "E-type" coaster brake, pretty much every NEW coaster brake bike has this hub in ...
Internal Gear Tech Talk

Get all your internal gear hub questions answered here!

Internal Gear Tech Talk
 Re: Sturmey 5-Speed Internal by bhughes, Mar 01, 2010 11:49 PM
I posted up a quick review of my 5-speed!! Sturmey Archer X-RD5 Review
 Sturmey 5-Speed Internal by bhughes, Feb 26, 2010 08:52 PM
I just bought myself a Sturmey X-RD5(W)!! OK, in English please? I just got a Sturmey 5-speed with built in drum brake!! With any luck I'll lace up ...
 Re: 2009 Sturmey Archer Catalog by bhughes, Apr 18, 2009 10:09 PM
Sturmey has put out their 2009/2010 catalog! Bunch of new stuff including: 5 speed coaster brake hub 3 speed fixed gear New rotary change 3-speeds ...
General Tech Talk

Bicycle tech questions OTHER than what's in your rear hub - come here for bottom bracket basics, headset help, cone conundrums and whatever else you can think of!

Other Tech Questions
 Re: Tire size by bhughes, Mar 03, 2010 12:01 PM
Just to follow up on this one nearly a year later, the only thing that fits on a Schwinn S7-sized rim is an S7-sized tire!  The actual rim diameter is ...
 Re: New Hubs by bhughes, Mar 03, 2010 12:13 AM
I now have two of the 4 laced up!!!  :D :D  Review of the X-RD5 is in the blogs, the X-FD I think enough of us are running already to be somewhat ...
 New Hubs by bhughes, Feb 23, 2010 05:58 PM
Sitting on my living room floor I have a bounty of bike bits... Two Sturmey X-FD front drums and one Sturmey X-FDD dyno drum!! The orange Firestone ...
 Re: Tire size by bhughes, Apr 28, 2009 10:14 AM
Usually it's the frame that's the limiting factor, not the rim... My rims aren't particularly wide and I've got 2.125's on them no problem.  As long as it's ...
 Tire size by tedly3000, Apr 28, 2009 08:57 AM
What is the largest, fattest tire size that fits on a Schwinn S7?  1-1 3/8?  1-1 3/4?  Or larger?