I have an Alfine 8 setup on my Bombadil but I don't do touring. Its plenty of gears for rolling hills around here. We do have a couple of steep ones too. If you get a decent tensioner like a Paul Melvin you can run a compact double up front and have 16 speeds, although there might be some overlap, I am not a Patrickesque gearing ratio expert. I run the older Nexus 7 on my MB2 with a triple, which voids the warranty I think due to do torque specifications (in low gears) but have been running it for 3 years and haven't blown it up yet. ..
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 6:12 PM, William <tapebu...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have been bouncing around an IGH concept. Does anyone tour on an Alfine > 8 rear hub? The setup I am looking at would get me a low gear of about 28 > inches and a high gear of 85 inches. That looks great for commuting but > maybe not enough for touring. Does anyone tour on the Alfine? > > -- > 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 http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
