Looking for a replacement chainset for my wife's Pashley - gearing is set up for someone who only ever travels downhill and can produce 400+watts for long periods.
We can't change the weight of the bike or the hub gears but a smaller front chainring might give her a fighting chance.
Basically this but with the smaller ring.
Can you not just use the one you have and stick a larger cog on the back?
As far as I am aware they all use the same three lugged cog that sturmey use.
Try Spa Cycles, they seem to have a lot of niche stuff. Or SJS.
Depending on the chainline and current axle length you can run any old 4x 104bcd MTB triple chainset with a cheap ebay ring in the middle position.
Try BETD.
velosolo should have something suitable for a good price.
Spa cycles. cheap, light, good looking, all teh options. Got one for the wife's bike, going to get one for my commuter too. Get a triple and put a chainguard/ trouser guard on the outer tabs.
It' so bloody marvellous spinning into town on her bike - few pedal strokes of leaving the house, think - "Oh, must tuck trews into socks.... No! Don't need to! Ha!" Bit like going for a ride in the rain with full mudguards. Bang on for a Pashley. Unless it's got a chainguard already?
https://www.spacycles.co.uk/m8b0s210p3655/SPA-CYCLES-Alloy-Chainguard-110-BCD
maybe even two guards, on inner, one outer, get a non-narrow-wide chainring?
not chromed steel, though, so you can ignore all of that ^.
Thanks everyone- few to look at. I did consider rear cog swap but it's already on somethign like a 20 and a 30% reduction would need 25-30t one which I wasn't sure was available for a hub gear but I'll check.
Biggest issue seems to be BCD and minimum chainring size on a lot of the 'road' options so I'll look at a double maybe and dropping the big ring off - hopefully chainlines will be ok as I don;t want to be mucking about with BB axle length if I can help it.
(thanks NedRapier - I'll look at that as a solution)
Thanks everyone- few to look at. I did consider rear cog swap but it’s already on somethign like a 20 and a 30% reduction would need 25-30t one which I wasn’t sure was available for a hub gear but I’ll check.
25t in stock here for £2.99
Alloy not steel but SunXCD chainsets are amazingly retro looking. Go with cloverleaf chainrings for even more style (although these are available if fewer sizes).
Going to give this one a go I think - 34t but looks like I can fine tune with the rear cog to a certain extent and this is cheaper than a separate crankset/ring/bolts purchase.
Not chromed but I can polish them up further.
