Tuesday 10.30-18.00
Wednesday 10.30-18.00
Thursday 10.30-21.00
Friday 10.30-17.30
Saturday 10.30-17.30

The Chopperdome

Admiraal de Ruyterweg 346
1055 NA Amsterdam

+31 (0)20 774 3396

Sturmey Archer

Gears have been in use for thousands of years with the potters wheel being an early example. Bicycle internal hub gears are based upon the epicyclic gear principle, described by James Watt in a 1781 steam engine. The subsequent development of smaller metal gearing for clocks improved function and late in the 19th century, many improvements in bicycle design were introduced. Frank Bowden had purchased a bicycle company initially located in Raleigh Street, Nottingham, England and his engineers worked with ideas from Henry Sturmey and James Archer resulting in the first Sturmey-Archer 3-speed bicycle gear hub patent in 1902. This is all described in much more detail in “The Sturmey-Archer Story”, a book by Tony Hadland, from 1987.

At the Chopperdome we offer the 165 mm SA hubs for DHL 100 rims and 3 speed stickshift .