I’ll second Kent’s comments especially the one that “more bikes get messed up in a suitcase than messed up on the road”.
On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 10:42 PM Kent Peterson -- Eugene, Oregon < kentsb...@gmail.com> wrote: > OK, bias alert. I work in the service department of Bike Friday. I've > logged a hell of a lot of miles on New World Tourists and I've seen what > people manage to bust on tours. > > I'd like to point out one contradiction in your inclinations: You want to > avoid proprietary parts but you are leaning towards a a Rohloff hub. The > Rohloff is a lovely piece of work that rarely fails, but can fail. It has a > proprietary shifter with proprietary cables. > > Many of our customers who get Rohloffs or Alfines also get Gates belt > drives. Again, proprietary. If you bend a Gates cog, good luck finding one > at a local bike shop. > > If I was building a bike for myself for your use case scenario, I'd go > with either a New World Tourist or a Pocket Llama. With a conventional > derailler drivetrain. When I pack it in the suitcase, I'd unbolt the rear > derailler. More bikes get messed up in the suitcase than get messed up on > the road. > > Anyway, that's my $.02 > > BTW, Bike Friday is running a skeleton crew under partial COVID lockdown & > deliveries across our supply chains are shot to hell. Delivery times for > new bikes are out into the fall right now. > > Kent Peterson > Eugene, OR USA > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/1ec6e37b-6017-496c-8a49-16cceb0a4963o%40googlegroups.com > . > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CAO8j99DehKj1kmBZ0%2B0sQV4nHNcfqT7XiAo%2BrubC72xBn_2GnQ%40mail.gmail.com.
