Originally Posted by
Joe_Gardner
Just got back from my first real ride on my brand new Rohloff hub. The bike is 10 times funner to ride, I'm sure the fun factor will wear off soon, but by then I'll be using my bike for daily transportation deep in the jungles of Costa Rica.
I took the bike straight up the steepest road I could find, a two block long 12% grade. Dropped the hub to the lowest gear and went straight up. My XT system would have jumped skipped and hopped all the way up that hill.
I still don't understand why your XT system would jump skip and hop..... I'm glad you like the Rohloff hub but I climb stuff that steep and steeper with any of my non internal hubs and they do not skip. Bad/worn chain or worn cassette or just a lack of adjustment would be what is going on.