I've had a Nexus 8 which I used for commuting, my son uses one, I currently have a Nuvinci N360 on my city bike. Having used them in town a lot, and having ridden thousands of miles of self-supported tours over the past 40 years, I can say I would never use an IGH for a self supported tour. Too many things have happened on the road and I want to be able to fix it when it does. I would not want to be in SW Butheadistan when the "black box" broke. I've even heard of it happening to people using Rohloff hubs. I keep the IGH local and use traditional exposed gearing out on tours.
Marc On Wednesday, July 3, 2013 6:12:22 PM UTC-4, William wrote: > > I have been bouncing around an IGH concept. Does anyone tour on an Alfine > 8 rear hub? The setup I am looking at would get me a low gear of about 28 > inches and a high gear of 85 inches. That looks great for commuting but > maybe not enough for touring. Does anyone tour on the Alfine? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
