I own a Rohloff, never have liked the shifting mechanism. Waiting for promised October delivery on a Super-Commuter from a local frame builder. He found another local machinist to make me a rotational shifter that will mount to a "regular" shift lever boss. I gave the verbal description "like a big ol' fashioned stereo knob" and this is what I received:
http://tinyurl.com/m2yeos One of the cool things about the Rohloff is that the entire shifting mechanism is contained within the hub itself. It really doesn't matter what or how you get the cable to pull the two different directions, just so long as you can get the proper length to move. Cable pull information on Rohloff per gear/total = 7.4mm/96.2mm On Sep 4, 2:39 pm, Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery <thill....@gmail.com> wrote: > The Rohloff uses a completely different cable, actually 2 cables: sort > of a push/pull system. It wouldn't be easy to roll this complicated > mechanism into an elegant bar-end shifter. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
