Originally Posted by
dschad
Electric shifting - that's cheating!
Good tip on the noodles, thanks.
Your setup got me looking at Rohloff/internal geared hubs....after the horrific amount of sand and salt in my drive-train from the snow clearing, I'm thinking next year I'll be sporting an IGH. Probably a Shimano, but boy does that make sense. It looks like you are in snow country also, any negatives about an igh in winter?
it works a treat though. Highly recommend it. I went for the Zirbel shifter and wow it is such a minimal shifter but really feels nice and shifts well. I never really thought I would be running SRAM anyway but Shimano XT Di2 is not out yet in 12 speed for non-STePS stuff and I didn't want to wait another year or two years or however long they are going to take for it it come out and while 11 speed is fine they use different wires and I don't want to deal with that hassle of making sure I am getting the older wires and having an older system that I am buying new right now. The SRAM aside from a few quirks is actually quite nice and easy to use.