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Old 11-02-02, 04:51 PM
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Dahon.Steve
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1. "Nexus is a good system for commuting, I might try to set up one of my Schwinn cruisers with Nexus."

The device looks solid and robust compared to Sturmey Archer. I just can't say enough positive about the Nexus system. Well there is one negative. When the Nexus hub goes totally bad, there are not many bike shops that can fix it and most will say to simply pop out the bad internals and pop in a new one! Very costly. The is not the same with Sturmey Archer since there are plenty of bike shops that have no trouble fixing a 3 speed.


I still like Sram 7 speed and will be commuting on one in the very near future. I still think 7 gears are too much for my commute since there aren't many hills that even a 3 speed couldn't handle. I think most peope on this forum would be surprised at how fast a 3 speed would go on a light road bike. It's too bad there aren't many road bikes that are built with the proper dropouts for a hub geared bike. ;-(
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