+1 Deraillers are finicky clunky stupid technology. Crisp silent shifting is a fairytale on a sunny day, nevermind a dirty puddle day. Groupo's , levels, WTF cares. The mechanics forum is half full of derailler stupidness. How many 1000s of them since the 1902 to forever SA 3 speed??? My SA 5 speed had a sticky clutch but it had speed to burn on any downslope, 45 mph easy.

So now I have a Rohloff 14. Zero doubt in my mind it is the Rolls Royce of hubs. 100% Perfect shifts and ratio jumps, 22 to 120 GI. They are pretty stiff out of the box, but it is catching up to the SA efficency after 2700 miles. The Rohloff cogs are as wimpy as cassettes for sure so I'm going to weld a 16T SA cog on there. That will get me 18,000 stump pulling miles. I'm still stuck with an aluminum chainrings that croak in 6000.

Shimano hubs are the unserviceable ones. SAs are childsplay. The Rohloff gasket is less fun, I have a spare already. Most of the parts are paint by number disassembly. The oil draining is harder than cleaning deraillers??? LOL I'll be in Vietnam and China soon. I'll be looking and looking for those imaginary spare derailler parts, chains.

My Rohloff with no shifter still is a 14 x SS. Your deR will have maybe one. A 1/8 chain = walking.