That would be my Goodrich with Rohloff # 5841. I have had the hub for about 12 years, gosh knows how many trouble free miles. The hub itself has been through heck and back, several 24 hour solo mountain bike races (different bike, ) two unsuccessful attempts at Trans Iowa, many a winter rides, toured, generally been ridden anywhere and in about every condition. The hub itself started its life as a non disk brake version, but I had it converted by by Thomas of Rohloff 10 years ago. At that time, he replaced the seals on it as the EARLY hubs were prone to some seeping of the oil.
I had Curt build the bike modeled with similar geometry to my Rivendell custom (that he also built.) The hub is great that all of the indexing and shifting is contained within the hub itself, nothing special needed by the shifter other than the ability to pull two opposing cables. When it came time for the shifter on the bike, I pitched the idea that I just wanted a big-ol-knob, like an old stereo. He had it made with a press-fit sealed cartridge bearing and it is mounted to a standard shift lever boss. Curt was great to work with and was gracious enough to let me take the bike with only primer for several months to make certain everything worked as desired. My kids painted it for me. In the years since, the bike has been pretty flawless. I can't really tell the difference in drag/resistance between the Rohoff and any of my other bikes. It is GREAT for touring, particularly on rollers where you just shift up or down and don't worry about when to shift the front derailleur vs back. It really is like a 14 speed singlespeed. I grabbed a few photos I had around from rides, etc... https://flic.kr/s/aHsknRBZy8 Now, onto completing the Rivendell custom order form I just printed.... muwahhahaha. On Monday, November 2, 2015 at 8:17:57 PM UTC-6, Matthew J wrote: > > Ouch, over $300 just for the shifters. > > Imagine that is why Rohloff sticks with the grip shifters. Probably quite > complicated piece of kit. > > Five years ago (former Riv customs builder) Curt Goodrich came up with a > Rohloff shifter that could be brazed on a down tube. He called it Das > Knob. <http://www.curtgoodrich.com/news/das-knob/> Never heard anything > further about it. Not sure if that means I and presumably whoever bought > the bike were the only people who thought it a cool idea or it did not work > well. > -- 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/d/optout.
