Originally Posted by
Tandem Tom
Thanks for the responses.
The idea came about as I am building up my wife's new touring bike with a Rohloff. I ride a Surly LHT and started wondering if there was a way to convert it with out a chain tensioner.
Sometimes, you can get lucky without an eccentric. In the many gearhub conversions I've done, I have had a few with vertical dropouts where a workable chain tension was achieved without a tensioner.