I thought this was funny timing too. I was recently shopping for bikes and looked closely at the 50/50 and a couple of Bianchi's Nexus-8 models. I was never able to ride the Cannondale as they had to order it and I didn't want to go through all the trouble since I wasn't very impressed w/the Nexus-8. Maybe that just means I wasn't impressed w/the Bianchi? The shifting sounded garbled and wasn't very smooth.

I really like the internal hub in theory - especially for a commuter - but I had my reservations after testing it out. (FWIW, I felt the same garbled shifting, skippy feeling on the Nexus 3-speed Townie, too.)

Glad to see that people out there are using it and loving it though, it makes me wonder if I had somewhat of an ironically coincidental bad experience.

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