found a Rohloff, belt drive folder...
12-13-08 | 02:57 AM
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found a Rohloff, belt drive folder...
I was browsing some german websites and came across this. Pretty wild rear dropout, huh? And a generator light! at https://www.utopia-fahrrad.de/
12-13-08 | 02:48 PM
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Good question, OUCH! 1,969 € for the Alfine hub, 2,798 € for the Rohloff. Probably a few hundred less once you subtract the taxes. The marketing says the ride quality is fantastic, at this price it ought to be!
12-15-08 | 08:40 PM
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12-16-08 | 04:25 AM
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12-16-08 | 05:23 AM
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Hi,
the Utopia and the Bernds had the same engineer. So they are similar but not the same. Its not a belt drive bike though, its a normal chain drive that is equipped with a very nice full chain guard which fully encloses chain, chain wheel and sprockets which run in grease. The rear vertical dropout is horizontally movable so that no chaintensioner is needed and the wheel gets positioned correctly after maintenance. Utopia uses those also for big-wheel bikes. The generator hub is the SON - the best generators imho. Still, yeah, Utopia is silly expensive, a very small manufacturer.
the Utopia and the Bernds had the same engineer. So they are similar but not the same. Its not a belt drive bike though, its a normal chain drive that is equipped with a very nice full chain guard which fully encloses chain, chain wheel and sprockets which run in grease. The rear vertical dropout is horizontally movable so that no chaintensioner is needed and the wheel gets positioned correctly after maintenance. Utopia uses those also for big-wheel bikes. The generator hub is the SON - the best generators imho. Still, yeah, Utopia is silly expensive, a very small manufacturer.
Last edited by somnatash; 12-16-08 at 05:27 AM.
