As a drop-bar Rohloff rider myself, that sounds pretty intriguing. Where exactly will you mount that on the handlebars?
I'm currently using the hubub adapter. Dustin > From: Ken Yokanovich <[email protected]> > Reply-To: <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 13:19:55 -0700 (PDT) > To: RBW Owners Bunch <[email protected]> > Subject: [RBW] Re: Multi-Speed Quickbeam > > > 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 <[email protected]> > 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
