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Here’s some servicing information for the hub if you’re feeling ambitious!

https://hadland.files.wordpress.com/2012­/07/saam.pdf

I know my way around AW hubs very well, having rebuilt a few recently. Happy to take a look .

Edit: soz just saw you said AM rather than AW. While the approach will be similar I haven’t ever taken one of these apart before, so you might be better with someone more au fait with them

They're unlikely to fit your mountain bike rims unfortunately.

These will be for ISO 590 rims while the mountain bike 26" tyre will typically be paired with a 559 rim

I'd be delighted to. Can provide some happy customers to vouch for my previous work. I'm based in Leyton E10, feel free to PM me if you'd like to discuss.

In terms of gearing for the sturmey on an old tandem, my Grubb is running a 48t ring with a 19t sprocket at the moment. This is fine for gentle hills but I have a 22t sprocket as well, which I would fit if ever going further afield or with luggage etc. You’ll spin out sooner with the latter but unless you’re planning on beating any speed records it’s better to have the lower gear available for when you need it: I think it’s inadvisable to submit the power of two people honking on an old sturmey hub in case it suddenly decides to hit that infamous ‘intermediate’ gear (and down to the ground you’ll go!)

Ah thanks for kind words guys! Your support kept me going ;)

Ha no worries! I’m clearly destined to hang onto them. Good luck with the project- you can read all about what I went through with a similar vintage build here: https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/3006­47/

Handlebars: you may discover that the stem may be for ‘standard’ one inch ones rather than the old style narrower fitting- both my old handlebars require a shim to fit in the (oversized) stem, but perhaps not all old tandem stems were like this.

Thought I should just update with one final completion pic or two now that mudguards and saddles are all fitted. A rainy trip to Epping Forest the other day, and a few stonking blasts around the velopark road circuit during lockdown have ironed out teething problems. Eagle eyed viewers will notice the stoker’s cranks are not quite in line- I’m working on sorting that (long story related to too much chrome on the rechromed cranks and the delights of cotter pin filing).
I also managed to source some smarter brakes with all the chrome still on them quite cheap off eBay, so my electrolysis above was not needed in the end. Still, was fun...

Have also ordered some new handlebars as the existing ones are rather too deeply scored in places for my liking.

Chuffed to bits it’s all back together anyway and having lots of fun using it.

As you can see, ropey. The bottom part of the front one is broken and missing. For sentimental reasons I just couldn’t bring myself to throw them away since they came off my grandparents‘ 1930s tandem, so they’ve got thousands of miles of touring history in them, but I decided it would be better with a new set so they’re just sat in the shed.

I’ve got some tatty and partly patched up 1930s bluemels cream mudguards off my old tandem. They will need new stays as the current ones are rusted to hell, but they’re yours for £5 + postage costs if you like

If you don’t mind taking the slow route then you can get back from Bristol to Waterloo using South Western Railway. You’ll have to change at Salisbury, but SWR trains are more bike friendly and between Bristol and Salisbury it will be a local GWR train with likely fewer restrictions on bikes

One of these, if straight out the box or cut down to be just wider than the straps, would allow you to just quickly slide the straps off each end when you wanted to remove the bag?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/UPANBIKE-Handle­bar-Extension-Speedometer-Headlight/dp/B­07446JH83/ref=asc_df_B07446JH83/?tag=goo­gshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=310135571­037&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=9338884371621­809928&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hv­dvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9044959&hvtar­gid=pla-575563057358&psc=1&th=1

Handlebar spacers will help keep it away from the tops in a cheap and easy fashion, but won’t help with the easy on-off

https://www.carradice.co.uk/products/acc­essories/handlebar-spacers-for-saddlebag­s

Sounds just like all of my student houses in Bristol 1999-2003. The landlord’s surname isn’t Quant is it...?

Wish my dad had given more of a shit about the standard of accommodation we were in! Good luck to you, but as others have said, a certain element of being at uni and ‘growing up’ is just lumping a few years of substandard housing...

Ellis Briggs used to just take their frames for respray painted down the road by Bob Jackson. Weirdly they were cheaper than going direct to Bob Jackson.

@Squaredisk sent me an unwanted bag of his, after mine was stolen (above!) What a gent. I've made a small forum donation. Love you guys.

As for the thief - I've set up a little cctv camera focused on the bike and no doubt he'll be back once he sees there's a replacement saddle (less nickable but hopefully will be enough of a lure to get a good image of him on the camera as he checks it out). My replacement saddlebag will remain indoors...

My rather nice 70s carradice bag (without side pockets, presumably a cadet or junior) was stolen along with the brooks flyer it was attached to (rookie error) from outside my flat in Leyton the other night.

It’s probably just been dumped somewhere as obvs the saddle was the target, but on the off chance anyone comes across it, do let me know! Cat looks suspicious but has been removed from enquiries.

Some will go back red next time (which is why it was essential for Starmer to accept brexit, which he now appears to have done), but you’re right that quite a few are probably lost to labour for a long while.

I’m delighted the Labour Party adopted a few more hands-on state interventionist policies in recent years. And I know The Great British Public are also on board with some of them, as your data shows - my point was that the public perception of the Labour Party in essential red wall seats is key to success. Until very recently they were perceived in these places, for all their laudable policies, as out of touch nutters and not to be trusted, exemplified by many of the new corbyn-worshipping membership who hopefully are now either leaving or deciding to tone down their drama.

Membership numbers are a fairly pointless indicator of success in politics. In fact the more young nutty naive proto-Marxists that depart the Labour Party, the better- in terms of its electoral chances anyway. It might then have a chance of developing some policies that appeal to the actual electorate. Arguably less ‘pure’ but purity is pointless without power and I sincerely hope Labour has now learnt its lesson of the past few years.

A classic of the genre

That was an excellent and very well constructed post.

I would add however that many women’s concerns relate to the problems inherent with self-ID, which is a very poorly understood concept by the public at large.

There are also red flags being uncovered at the moment in relation to puberty blocking drugs in children, mass resignations at the Tavistock centre, the safeguarding of women’s sports as a level playing field (I wouldn’t call that a distraction I’d say it’s desperately important especially for girls at school just getting into sports), the inherent homophobia of many parents of ‘trans children’ in the States (not sure how far that has developed over here yet), and many other problematic questions that need a fair and honest hearing, to name but a few- whilst at all times of course recognising the need to uphold and protect the rights and dignity of trans people to live their lives as freely and happily as the rest of us.

It’s a very delicate subject but debate mustn’t be stifled or shut down that’s for sure.

£70 last drop before ebay

Yeah it tightens up as you go

You don’t need a chainwhip to fit a freewheel, they just screw on. To remove the old one you need an appropriately sized freewheel removal tool, not a chainwhip.

Unless you’re talking about a freehub?