Originally Posted by
GamblerGORD53
+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.
The mechanics forum is full of derailer problems but almost all of them are because the user doesn't understand how to work on the mechanism and make them worse. Nearly every problem with derailers is related to cable stretch and can be fixed in 30 seconds but usually takes longer because the user starts turning screws that have nothing to do with the problem. I suspect that similar problems...or worse...would arise if people started trying to "adjust" their IGH hubs without knowing what they were doing.
Originally Posted by
GamblerGORD53
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.
I don't know what you are doing to your chainrings but I get far more than 6000 miles out of a set of aluminum chainrings even when mountain biking.
Originally Posted by
GamblerGORD53
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.
Shimano hubs are unserviceable?! Since when. It's news to me considering that I teach people how to service Shimano hubs three or 4 times a day when I volunteer at my local co-op.
Originally Posted by
GamblerGORD53
My Rohloff with no shifter still is a 14 x SS. Your deR will have maybe one. A 1/8 chain = walking.
