Originally Posted by
Huggable
Just curious, do you guys do a lot of climbs? I find the stock 10-speed with single chainring more than sufficient for my commute. The only mod so far is to upgrade from 52T to 56T Oval.
Indeed, it depends where you live.
Even in cities, there are places with short but very steep streets where the 52x32 2.21m, the lowest gear of the Birdy Touring, is too long
For those places, the Birdy Rohloff with 1.55 - 8.27m goes everywhere while the Birdy Touring with 2.21 - 7.86m can have problems on steep hills.
For me, the Birdy City with its cheap and limited Nexus 8 is a very bad choice. I wonder why at his price, R&M doesn't install an Alfine 11 hub on the Birdy City instead of the low end Nexus 8 ?