Originally Posted by I-Like-To-Bike
I'll third that it is a VERY detailed review; especially from someone who states up front that he"Doesn't have one myself, since I dislike riding bicycles with internal gears,…
It appears that this review may be mostly cherry picked anecdotes that confirm the poster's antipathy towards such hubs and slightly less than objective; given the poster's stated made up mind about internal hubs.
Note: My personal experience with ownership and cycling experience with one bike with Shimano 7 speed hub, 3 bikes withSachs 7 speed hubs in the last six years and numerous bikes equipped with Sachs Torpedo and Sturmey Archer 3 speeds over the last 35 years revealed NONE of these problems.
Shimano sell these things as being the ultimate commuter tool, low maintenance, use and forget. What does appear to be the case is that this is unture, some people who use these things in anger have major problems with them. I am very interested in the comments from interested as it pulls from a differeent foreign gene pool where these things tend to be used more.