I wish the big makers had focused on hub gears instead of cramming 12 onto the rear hub and using batteries to shift. Man, what a good selection we might have by now! And prices might be much lower if good hub gears were sold over a much large rmarket.
Fat chance, I realize, since really the derailleur system is so much more flexible. On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 10:22 PM, Nick Payne <njh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Well, my touring bike has had a Rohloff hub on it for about 15 years. > The Rohloff is pretty much a black box - all the smarts and indexing are > inside the hub, the twist shifter is merely a low tech device for > pulling on one of two cables depending on which way you twist it. > > I mounted the shifter on drop bars like so: > http://www.users.on.net/~njpayne/bikestuff/rohloff/index.htm. These > days, there are multiple options for shifting the hub - see for example, > http://cyclemonkeylab.blogspot.com.au/2016/02/tech- > talk-shifter-options-for-use-with.html. > > Nic -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
