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Rohloff Speedhub
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I would like to know if anyone here uses the Rohloff Sppedhub on his MTB. Would you buy it again? Is it worth the extra investment? TIA! Derk |
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Derk wrote:
: Hi, : I would like to know if anyone here uses the Rohloff Sppedhub on his MTB. : Would you buy it again? Is it worth the extra investment? Yes. In a list of possible expensive bike options, I would list it #1 in terms of bang/buck. - Mark |
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I would like to know if anyone here uses the Rohloff Sppedhub on his MTB. Would you buy it again? Is it worth the extra investment? It's noisy, heavy, less efficient, expensive to maintain, and costs an arm-and-a-leg. After a year on the first one, I bought another one for my other bike - and can't imagine voluntarily riding without one ever again. You, OTOH, might hate the thing.... -- PeteCresswell |
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(Pete Cresswell) wrote:
It's noisy, heavy, less efficient, expensive to maintain, and costs an arm-and-a-leg. What is "expensive to maintain" on a Rohloff hub? -- Dave, who knows almost nothing about that hub dvt at psu dot edu |
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dvt wrote:
(Pete Cresswell) wrote: It's noisy, heavy, less efficient, expensive to maintain, and costs an arm-and-a-leg. What is "expensive to maintain" on a Rohloff hub? shipping charges to california ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= East/West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
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I'm using a Speedhub on a road bike, not an MTB,
but I think it's worth the money, and I would buy another. One control gets you all the gears in sequence, you can shift whether pedaling or not, the wheel has no dish, indexing doesn't depend on getting cable (or any other) adjustment right, and the hub is built to last. In the higher gears, the drivetrain is quiet. In lower gears, not. Tom Ace |
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What sort of sound does it make? Is this a click from ratchets? The way you say that it sounds ominous. Is there a serious problem? It gets noticibly less noisey with age - as in 700 miles or so. Not a problem to me - and I'm fairly neurotic about stuff like that. Noise doesn't manifest itself until gear 7 and below..and only a couple gears are really noticible. -- PeteCresswell |
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m-gineering wrote:
lower gears use straight cut gears Since you live in Holland and know the cycling conditions here I ask you the same question: what's your opinion about using the Rohloff Speedhub here? Is it worth investing in one? Do you know of any (imported?) frames that were designed for the Rohloff speedhub? TIA, Derk |
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