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I started riding an internal gear hub 3 years ago. The reason was my
daily commuting distance of 14km per day. Before I rode a derailleure
bicycle. With massive problems during winter times because of frozen
bowden cables. For shifting pourpose it´s no big issue when they
frozen. But also the brake bowden cables wer frozen and from time to
time they torn apart. That´s no fun! The not covered chain needed
quite often oil... and it took me time and dirty hands to clean the
chain every half year. So I started examine how to improve the system
"Bicycle" for daily commuting!
The result up to now is a Fichtel & Sachs (F&S) Duomatic internally
geared hub (2 Speed). There is no bowden cable anymore you just have
to kick back the pedals. And the second advantage is the Duomatic
coaster brake. There are a lot marketing guys out there who tell you a
coster brake is old fashioned and no worth the to name it "brake". My
3 years experiance with the hub is great. The coaster brake functions
always also during rain or snow and will not freeze in winter and two
gears are enough when you cycle in a flat region.
I also added a Hebie Chainglider which protects the chain from the
environmental influences.
Now I want to built up a touring bicycle (Pourpose: Touring in hilly
regions with 4-5kg luggage!) with more than two gears and observed the
internal hub market. I tried to find the right specifications for
intern hubs and made a review.
The following hubs participate in the comparison.
* Shimano
o Nexus INTER-3
o Nexus INTER-7
o Nexus INTER-8
o Alfine (8 Speed)
* Sram
o T3
o P5
o P5 Cargo
o S7
o i-Motion 3
o i-Motion 9
* Sturmey Archer
o 3 Speed
o 5 Speed
o 8 Speed
* Rohloff
o Speedhub 500/14 (14 Speed)
* Fichtel & Sachs
o Torpedo Duomatic (2 Speed)
o Torpedo Automatic (2 Speed)
Up to now I´ll go for the Shimano Nexus INTER-7 or the SRAM i-Motion 9
and would like to read your comments about my decision and the
review.
http://hubstripping.wordpress.com/internal-gear-hub-review/
Gruß Marco
daily commuting distance of 14km per day. Before I rode a derailleure
bicycle. With massive problems during winter times because of frozen
bowden cables. For shifting pourpose it´s no big issue when they
frozen. But also the brake bowden cables wer frozen and from time to
time they torn apart. That´s no fun! The not covered chain needed
quite often oil... and it took me time and dirty hands to clean the
chain every half year. So I started examine how to improve the system
"Bicycle" for daily commuting!
The result up to now is a Fichtel & Sachs (F&S) Duomatic internally
geared hub (2 Speed). There is no bowden cable anymore you just have
to kick back the pedals. And the second advantage is the Duomatic
coaster brake. There are a lot marketing guys out there who tell you a
coster brake is old fashioned and no worth the to name it "brake". My
3 years experiance with the hub is great. The coaster brake functions
always also during rain or snow and will not freeze in winter and two
gears are enough when you cycle in a flat region.
I also added a Hebie Chainglider which protects the chain from the
environmental influences.
Now I want to built up a touring bicycle (Pourpose: Touring in hilly
regions with 4-5kg luggage!) with more than two gears and observed the
internal hub market. I tried to find the right specifications for
intern hubs and made a review.
The following hubs participate in the comparison.
* Shimano
o Nexus INTER-3
o Nexus INTER-7
o Nexus INTER-8
o Alfine (8 Speed)
* Sram
o T3
o P5
o P5 Cargo
o S7
o i-Motion 3
o i-Motion 9
* Sturmey Archer
o 3 Speed
o 5 Speed
o 8 Speed
* Rohloff
o Speedhub 500/14 (14 Speed)
* Fichtel & Sachs
o Torpedo Duomatic (2 Speed)
o Torpedo Automatic (2 Speed)
Up to now I´ll go for the Shimano Nexus INTER-7 or the SRAM i-Motion 9
and would like to read your comments about my decision and the
review.
http://hubstripping.wordpress.com/internal-gear-hub-review/
Gruß Marco