the principle is pretty simple , but this video makes it look so over complicated .. bad way to explain , and over complicated drwings and colors everywere

Always wanted to know this. And now I half understand it. Maybe another 57 years of life I will fully understand it. But by then I don’t think I will care anymore! :-)

I remember as a 12 year old earning extra pocket money restoring bikes that had been dumped. I dismantled 4 hub gears before I finally understood how to repair and reassemble them. I got known locally as the person to see for bike repairs.

The Sturmey Archer system is much better than Shimano gear.

I have a bicycle from the Netherlands that has a Sturmey archer 3 speed on it. Date stamped 1960. I've never serviced it. Just added some atf and I've ridden hundreds of miles at this point with no issues.

And the older ones are more durable then the new stuff out today...figures.I got chrome parts 30 to 40 years old that still look new while a year old bike left outside is completely rusted...they don't make anything like they use to..

Thanks for this video. I grasped most of it, and I'm going to watch it again until I really understand it. These hubs are absolutely brilliant. The fact that they're so reliable and bulletproof speaks to their engineering and quality. Simple and elegant. I've owned and used several, and I want to understand them more.

Very clever to think this technology was around in 1902

This is the version of events that ignores the crucial contribution of William Reilly. Bowden, Sturmey and Archer used Reilly's invention and called it the Sturmey Archer for reasons of expediency. Look it up!

The car automatic transmission is based on the Sturmey Archer planetary design.

In the 1980s I found an old Schwinn bicycle that I restored to the best of my limited ability back then. The bicycle had a Sturmey Archer three speed hub connected to a single speed drive train. While working at a hardware store that also did bicycle repair, I found a three gear external sprocket that was made for my Sturmy Archer three speed hub. I then changed the single chainring crank to a double chainring crank set. Then I fitted this beast of a bicycle with rear and front derailleurs, time trial aluminum alloy Cinelli handlebars with Modolo Kronos brake levers and road her until one night while giving my friends on BMX bikes about a 3 to 5 block headstart, I caught and passed all of them before the finish line. Then when I got to the finish which was Woodhaven Blvd., some asswipe female driver decided to make a right hand turn without using her turn signal. Needless to say I crashed into the dumbasses car and unfortunately wrecked my three speed Schwinn that was converted into a 12 speed. I sure do miss that bike, I nicknamed her "the Tank"!!!!

You did a beautiful and clear job. Thank you for making me understand how it work.

i just did my first 3 speed tear down and that combined with this video helped me understand how they work so much, thank you for uploading this!!

i have a 1961 and 1970 SA hubs on 2 different bikes and i love them very reliable in my book

That was as clear as a dark thing in a dark room, after dark.

Just to complicate matters further,I have a 5 speed hub that I built onto a 27" alloy rim,but kept the double chainring & used the rear mech as a tensioner. Needed 3 gear levers though!

Thank you Sturmey-Archer for my 3 Speed. May GOD BLESS you!!!

Most geared cycles in the fifties were three speed Sturmey Archer so they are anything but new.

Shades of the future, that fat tire bicycle in the beginning isn't a joke anymore.

I won't lie, I still baffles me. But as a piece of engineering, it's beautiful.