Originally Posted by
NoControl
..., you can make a grocery run in a Corvette or a Pinto. In the end you get the same results.
But the food tastes so much better when you rode your Rohloff bike to the grocery store. <Insert chuckle here.>
Originally Posted by
elcruxio
... I think Rohloff also has a torque limit but I have no idea what that is.
To the best of my knowledge Rohloff does not have a torque limit but they do have a limit on the ratio of chainring to rear sprocket, riders under 100 kg that ratio is 1.9, heavier rider and tandems have a higher ratio but I am not sure what that currently is. Although setting a ratio like that is a form of torque limiting, it is much less precise than the specification you cited for the pinion.
For touring with a load I use a chainring with a 2.25 ratio. The 2.25 ratio gives me a first gear that has a cadence of 72 at 3.5 mph with a 57mm wide 26 inch tire. I need 3.5 mph to maintain vertical and directional stability, so a lower gear would be lower than I would find useful. For unladen riding around home I change that to 2.75 ratio as I find an unloaded bike does not need the lowest gears for the hills near my home.
Originally Posted by
seeker333
I'd pick Rohloff over Pinion too. ...
I'd pick this Siskiyou with Rohloff hub, less-rack-mount-interfering chainstay brake caliper mount and eccentric BB.
CoMo offers the Pathfinder Package as a $600 option on all it's bike, consisting of a Schmidt SON28 hub, Edelux II headlight and Sinewave Cycles Reactor USB steerer cap. That is a good lighting/charging package but it's twice what you or I would pay for the parts from a German LBS (which is the case for every component or option on a CoMo bike).....
I considered the Pangea and Thorn Nomad Mk II which is what I eventually got. Both are 26 inch. I think that 26 inch wheels make a bit more sense for an S&S bike than a 650b wheel as they are a bit smaller diameter and fit better in the case. But the 650b beats the 700c wheel in this regard, so maybe the choice of 650b was a compromise.
I found that the Sinewave does not play well with my Garmin 64, the Sinewave lacks a cache battery that my Garmin appears to require. To make my Garmin 64 work with the Sinewave, I need an external cache battery. Perhaps the other Garmin models work with the Sinewave directly, but not my Garmin 64. My Garmin 64 also works great with the B&M Luxox U because it has a cache battery built in.