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03-23-05 | 04:33 PM

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Sheldon Brown

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Originally Posted by onbike 1939

I sold my custom Mercian Vincitori tourer to buy the Thorn Raven with ROHLOFF hub. To me the idea of oem, chain tensioner et al took away from the simple elegance of the design and now I value the specific dropouts and eccentric bb which makes any maintainance so simple.

I agree except about the OEM issue...If you want to take advantage of the Rohloff-specific dropouts, you need the OEM version. The non-OEM models use that kludgy reaction arm under the left chainstay, which complicates wheel removal/installation considerably.

Sheldon "OEM" Brown

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