1954 English 3-speed

[DebW]

The 3-speed AW hub is back together. The pictures show the clean and empty hub shell before re-assembly, the innards all together, and the 2 tsp of Sturmey Archer Oil that I poured inside the innards just before inserting the innards into the hub shell. Can't test the mechanism until I get the wheel on the bike, a chain installed, and the cable and trigger. I did remove the chaincase so I can size the chain, and installed the crank arms. Even trued the chainring. It's obvious this bike has been ridden without toe clips/clipless because the chainring is shorter on the right pedal downstroke.

I took the fork to Peter Mooney at Belmont Wheelworks. He remarked on the fork blades being round rather than ovalized. Then another guy came in and saw the fork and started asking about it. This guy is very into restoring old Raleigh 3-speeds. He claimed the fork was from the 30s because of the round blades. So maybe the 1954 AW hub wasn't original on it. He said lots of those bikes came with single speed/fixed gear instead of 3-speeds. Peter kept the fork, so I won't get to watch him straighten it.