Hey this is the touring section. Only a ROHLOFF 14 will do, mine is 32H with 14g DT. 48/16T
Not just me out here. I met a 60+ guy like me in Hanoi. In 9 months rode almost the whole way from Holland. He passed on the Kyber (?) Pass between Kaz and Chengdu. Rohloff and rubber belt even. Another 30s guy had one on a LHT. The locals all had MTBs. They were no match for my Rohloff on a good road.

I was the only one riding UP 3/4 of Vietnam into the wind. All the way from Hoi An to Guiyang China. Malaria pills were making me sick at the start. Lots of mud splatter, rough construction, sharp gravel and 30 miles of total quagmire slowing cars to 3 mph. A few bus rides with my bike buried in luggage, no problem. Zero broken spokes, SA FDD front 13g , and flats on my Schwalbe M Plus. My totally overworked fork did break twice, no fall ha. My bike is a crazy 130+ lbs. That = nun + Staehpj1 + cyco bikes together. I'm 165 lbs now, lost 10 I think. One day I had 7 bottles of OJ, 4 of water and 13 snickers bars. Some days were 84 miles all hilly. I did 98.5 on the only no headwind day.

It did get to a point in China where it just became easier to walk up some of the endless stupidly steep village hills. So did a young local touring on a loaded MTB. 3 days in a row I had to go miles up 10% hills on quagmire and it was 2c and freezing to the front spokes and fender. The only school kids keeping up had e-bikes ha, saw them everyday in Vietnam.

1000 miles in HCM and 2000 since. 2750 before I left home. I have a Sturmey Archer cog welded to the Rohloff 13T. awesome.