I've just acquired...
david2
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... a beautiful German bike for a bargain price
It's a Utopia Kranich, must be about 10 years, old and has a couple of oddities that I could do with some advice on. I'd download a picture but I don't know how.
First is the FER Speichendynamo. How does that work. All I can find elsewhere on the web are a few german sites selling them, like this one:
http://www.fahrrad-richter.de/product_i ... cts_id=291
And I can't read German.
Then there's the Sachs torpedo pentasport 5 speed hub gear. Its skiping in 4th and 5th badly and I can't find anyway to adjust it. I've managed to download a maintenance schedule for a SRAM P5, which seems to be fairly equivalent and that shows a need to set an indicator on the clickbox window, but there is no such thing on the Sachs unit. Does anyone know if I could procure a SRAM cllickbox and fit it to the Sachs unit? Or maybe someone knows a secret to setting the Sachs Torpedo Pentasport 5
(this is a copy of what I have just posted in the commuting workshop forum - someone there suggested I might get a bit more luck with an answer here)
It's a Utopia Kranich, must be about 10 years, old and has a couple of oddities that I could do with some advice on. I'd download a picture but I don't know how.
First is the FER Speichendynamo. How does that work. All I can find elsewhere on the web are a few german sites selling them, like this one:
http://www.fahrrad-richter.de/product_i ... cts_id=291
And I can't read German.
Then there's the Sachs torpedo pentasport 5 speed hub gear. Its skiping in 4th and 5th badly and I can't find anyway to adjust it. I've managed to download a maintenance schedule for a SRAM P5, which seems to be fairly equivalent and that shows a need to set an indicator on the clickbox window, but there is no such thing on the Sachs unit. Does anyone know if I could procure a SRAM cllickbox and fit it to the Sachs unit? Or maybe someone knows a secret to setting the Sachs Torpedo Pentasport 5
(this is a copy of what I have just posted in the commuting workshop forum - someone there suggested I might get a bit more luck with an answer here)
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I've added a signature to prove it is still possible.0
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FER dynamo - flick the arrow shaped lever thing into the spokes. This drives the dynamo. Pull it out of the spokes to release the drive.
The housing contains a belt drive from the drive bit to the dynamo itself, hence gears up the dynamo to spin more quickly. On early models the belt would snap, I think they fixed this in the early 90s.0 -
Brilliant, thanks for that. Not intuitive but I was thinking of giving it a go. Now I know I'm less likely to have to buy an new dynamo when I find its not the best solution
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