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If you fancy belt drive and have £1,000 to spare there's this
http://www.trekbikes.com/uk/en/bikes/urban/soho/sohodlx/
It's a Nexus rather than Alfine hub, but it is fully tooled up for riding round town (right down to the thermos for your skinny soya triple shot latte)
Greenroofer anyone would think you stand in the coffee queue at work getting irked at waiting for the person in front to get their organic soya milk to get freshly steamed... :)
I told people about that bike on an ERC ride. They didn't believe me that anyone made a bike with a built-in venti-hazlenut-extra-hot-wet-skinny-frappulate beverage holder...
I have a friend who has a Trek Soho, when he first got it I took it out for a test ride, the first impression is that it is very quiet and the next was that it was hard to accelerate fast, you have to stop pedalling to change up. The up side was that you didn't have to worry about changing down before you stopped, so I can see its advantages as a relaxed urban ride, but not sure it was for me...
I don't have to stop pedalling just not at full force.
From the Surly "hedging all bets" article that Stepdoh linked to;
Single speed bikes are rad. Bikes with derailleurs and cassettes are sexy. Belt drive internal gear bikes work great too.
and the changing down while stopped thing is not always true Ive found, specially if you are stopped on a bit of a hill... crunch!
"specially if you are stopped on a bit of a hill... crunch!"
With hub gears it's always advisable to take pressure off pedals. Sometimes reuires a small backpedal.
Ahh backpedaling works does it? I wondered.
I'd love to fit a Campagnolo 11 speed cassette to a SRAM 3-speed dualdrive hub and have a triple up front. 99 gears!!!
Sadly not to be as SRAM don't do hubs that take a Campagnolo cassette....
I've been riding on a Nexus Hub for the last three years and never had any trouble with the gearing. The rear wheel has been off a number of times mainly due to problems with the spokes breaking. I have never felt the need to backpedal or pause when changing gear. I also never change up or down when I am stationary. Most of the time eight gears is sufficient but when in a hurry down hills ten gears would be perfect.
I second tarmac jockey above. i think i'm on an 8speed alfine (is that right LB?). love it, love it, love it.
I thought I had three working bikes there (I have a fourth for short jaunts with towbar down WoL that still does the business if not stretched to go further). Alas Secteur making terrible churning noise I associate with bearings in front wheel hub. This was during jaunt out on the Whang this am heading for cheapest Espresso in the Lothians (£1.20) in Apple Pie cafe at Carnwath. Swung down to Pedal Power at West Calder, unwilling to fix there and then as would cause delay for other customers/. Fair enough. Pedal Power is moving along the street in West Calder to premises with ten times the floor space. So that is a positive thing.
Hub gears tho? I don't think so. My Sturmey Three Speed (courtesy of TBC) has a wee chain (middle size length) external to the hub and identical to the ones from my childhood. So if I knew what I was talking about I could fix it myself rather than opening up the hub and all the runny thinned down grease pouring out...
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