The Patience of Old Bikes

Derelict old bicycles have the patience of giant sequoia as they are absolutely comfortable to sit and rust into the ground. Natural as can be. To rustle these slumbering beasts from their preferred state means the mechanic must exhibit that same patience. Modern bicycles are detailed in PDFs and discussed in internet forums, while a broken Shimano 3CC hub is left out of the party. Search for info on the lonely 3CC and you would think you had the only one on earth.


Don't get me wrong. Working on a mysterious three speed hub is no Zen exercise of careful consideration and tea sipping. It is a dirty and fairly miserable job of exploding components finding their way into previously unknown cracks in the floor.

A bicycle can be 90% completed only to sit for 4 months while we wait for a parts bike with that critical last component to arrive .

Thanks for the hub, Matt!