Thread: Specialized Globe
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Old 05-15-09 | 01:15 PM
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sauerwald
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Originally Posted by Commando303
Does anyone know if it would be possible to buy a derailleur-geared bike (such as a Globe [not the Vienna Deluxe 3]), and have it built with internal gearing instead of the external? That is, I could buy a hub-gearing system (such as the Shimano Nexus), and ask the bike shop to install it instead of the derailleurs. Can this be done?
Maybe - easier to adapt a single speed bike to IGH. Generally an IGH will want to have a horizontal dropout, and most derailleur bikes have vertical dropouts. One example that is put together at a bike shop in Boston is this
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