Originally Posted by
fietsbob
Hey, it wasn't ''out of the box''.. I got the hub in a complete bike for 1/2 of the cost,
barely more than the hub retails for..
and Koga Miyata WTR they stopped even importing them to the states ,
so I got no complaints
I know how to fix most things , an oil leak is not a failure ,
they will still work dry for a while, ..
my 3 speed gets a squirt of lube oil every once in a while, in it,
that's hardly a failure..
If oil was supposed to stay 'in' and it came 'out,' and the hub needs oil to function properly, then that is a failure. Not catastrophic, possibly easily fixed, but a failure nonetheless.
However, the 90 - 98% of Rohloffs that are not defective have earned the reputation that they perform flawlessly 100% of the time.