Originally Posted by
fietsbob
... of course it doesn't come with a market competitor's parts.
Right. Like the OP, I have a NuVinci hub, with which I have been extremely happy. It's a fantastic hub. I was less pleased with the shifter, which was too big for my tastes and had a not very useful graphical ratio indicator. I ordered a shifter from Rohloff, which is smaller and functionally the same as NuVinci's shifter, and is also available in left-handed version (without any hacks or workarounds).