Originally Posted by
chagzuki
It's very much perceptible, the weird thing is the problems I have in gears where one wouldn't expect any. For instance, having stripped and serviced my x-rf5 for the umpteenth time, swapped some internals from a spare, improved it's overall performance by paying attention to subtleties of adjustment, I find there's some grindiness in 3rd gear. I could live with it if it were just the extreme gears that weren't up to par.
I live quite well with my Sachs Spectro 7 without doing any adjustments or swapping of internals, and have had it serviced only once in the 12 years and 60,000 miles of year round all weather use. Rode the S-A S-5 for 20 years with no swapping of internals or adjustments. Never, ever, ever had to any adjustments on a S-A AW 3 speed. The Sachs PentaSport 5 speed I have doesn't get much use since I prefer the bikes that have the other hubs.