Originally Posted by
mdilthey
I agree with you, but nothing is indestructible. Nothing is frictionless. Your beloved bike has 15,000 maintenance-free miles on it; do you trust that aged rolhoff with another 3,000, knowing that something in it's internals has rubbed the same way millions of times?
I've got the NuVinci, not the Rohloff, but the answer, if I had a Rohloff, is yes. Rohloff claims a life expectancy of over 100,000 km (62,000 miles). I'm not sure what the life expectancy of the NuVinci is.
Originally Posted by
mdilthey
The peace of mind in a system you can visually check every day wins for me.
And I prefer long term reliability over ease of repair. Everybody prioritizes differently.