Put 20 miles on the recently completed mixte AW conversion yesterday with the first of the season's rides to the beach at Riis Park. Everyone here knows this already but the AW hub is a great thing. I know some bike people have found fault, on paper, with its design. A low normal design might be better than a high normal design. And sure it would be nice if somehow epicyclic gear mechanics didn't make third gear a slightly larger jump from second gear than might be ideal. But in practice, riding day after day, it's a hard piece of bike engineering to fault. For utility and basic recreational riding it works so well and is so dependable. I never notice at all its so-called faults. Icing on the cake is something I only recently realized has always been part of the magic for me: the trigger shifter's two step click click from first to second gear. Love that!