Originally Posted by
hockeyteeth
I had a Nexus 7-speed hub for a couple years. It was great. I traded it to a co-worker and it's still running strong. Only had a grip shifter option though. Alfine comes in 8 and 11-speed, has a rapid fire shifter, and is supposedly made with more durable internals, plus a disc option if your frame has disc tabs. We have modern Sturmey Archer 5-speed hubs on some of the new bikes on the floor. They are nowhere near as nice as Shimano's IGH offerings. Nuvinci is interesting if you want an infinitely variable gear range. Rohloff if you're a ******!
Thanks for the input. What I'd really like is to use a downtube shifter, since tbe frame already has dt shifter mounts and cable guides under the bb. Is that available for any of those IGH hubs ? The less amount of cabling and clutter the better for me.
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