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Hub gear availability
I clipped this from a Bike Biz article.
<11:15, Oct 15th 2007 by Carlton Reid
It's not all fine on the city bike front
Want to spec a bike with a hub-gear? Get in the queue, it could be a 200+ day wait. The humble hub-gear is back in a big way.
Many of the city bikes on display at Eurobike and Interbike were fitted with hub-gears from Shimano, SRAM, Sturmey Archer, and Rohloff.
These bikes were wildly popular with show visitors but there may be problems getting enough bikes to market to satisfy consumer demand.
Another key filip for the hub-gear sector - and the reason for the longer than usual lead times - has been the run on hub gears for the city hall rental bikes now becoming increasingly popular across Europe.
JCDecaux and Clear Channel in France, and Bicinceitta in Italy, are building tens of thousands of hub-geared bikes.
Paris alone will have 20,600 Velib self-service bikes by December.>
For those asking why they are hard to get.
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<11:15, Oct 15th 2007 by Carlton Reid
It's not all fine on the city bike front
Want to spec a bike with a hub-gear? Get in the queue, it could be a 200+ day wait. The humble hub-gear is back in a big way.
Many of the city bikes on display at Eurobike and Interbike were fitted with hub-gears from Shimano, SRAM, Sturmey Archer, and Rohloff.
These bikes were wildly popular with show visitors but there may be problems getting enough bikes to market to satisfy consumer demand.
Another key filip for the hub-gear sector - and the reason for the longer than usual lead times - has been the run on hub gears for the city hall rental bikes now becoming increasingly popular across Europe.
JCDecaux and Clear Channel in France, and Bicinceitta in Italy, are building tens of thousands of hub-geared bikes.
Paris alone will have 20,600 Velib self-service bikes by December.>
For those asking why they are hard to get.
Dan Burkhart
www.boomerbicycle.ca
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I guessed as much when I saw some Taiwanese and Chinese built bikes at Interbike spec'ing German-manufacture SRAM hubs.
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On Sram's production vidieo on their website (https://www.sram-imotion.com/) Sram officials claim that a new i9 hub comes off the assemblyline every 25 seconds. Is that not over 1000 hubs per 8 hour day or 23,000 per month (working 5 days a week/4 weeks per month)? This hub has been in production according to sram for over a year. Thats over a quarter of a million hubs per year. I don't think there are that many rental bikes on planet earth. I think sram is slackin.
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On Sram's production vidieo on their website (https://www.sram-imotion.com/) Sram officials claim that a new i9 hub comes off the assemblyline every 25 seconds. Is that not over 1000 hubs per 8 hour day or 23,000 per month (working 5 days a week/4 weeks per month)? This hub has been in production according to sram for over a year. Thats over a quarter of a million hubs per year. I don't think there are that many rental bikes on planet earth. I think sram is slackin.
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It will probably cost twice as much as the aluminum one, but it really looks sporty.
It seems that the Freeweel, i-Brake and Disk brake versions appeared just a month ago.
Also, you can buy i-Motion in the UK. Though, this one is an expensive seller:
https://www.roman-road.co.uk/prices/
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Go in About/History, and you will see the carbon fiber version of i-Motion.
It will probably cost twice as much as the aluminum one, but it really looks sporty.
It seems that the Freeweel, i-Brake and Disk brake versions appeared just a month ago.
Also, you can buy i-Motion in the UK. Though, this one is an expensive seller:
https://www.roman-road.co.uk/prices/
It will probably cost twice as much as the aluminum one, but it really looks sporty.
It seems that the Freeweel, i-Brake and Disk brake versions appeared just a month ago.
Also, you can buy i-Motion in the UK. Though, this one is an expensive seller:
https://www.roman-road.co.uk/prices/
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Don't expect to see too many of these showing up at the discount houses.
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Well, I just did a currency conversion from pounds to Canadian dollars, and their price of 290 lb works out to $576 Cdn. That is about $39 more than it retails for here.(or will if we can ever get em)
Don't expect to see too many of these showing up at the discount houses.
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Don't expect to see too many of these showing up at the discount houses.
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https://store.airbomb.com/Items.asp?Cc=475%2DT%2D388
Here a guy from Germany tells the price of the i-Motion 9-speed kit (with the shifter):
https://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=302311
Here in Germany, the whole kit sells for 260Euro, or $350 USD.
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