Short video about my old Surly disc trucker which has been upgraded with a Rohloff SPEEDHUB 500/14 14-speed gear hub. This bike is now a touring machine.
Regarding the sound from a Rohloff owner with some miles on it (almost 50,000km): you will have pedalling some noise from for the lowest seven gears, especially prononced gears 5 and 7. The sound will get a bit quieter after a few thousand Kilometers and at colder temperatures. The freehub sound is only in Gear 8-14, the first seven gears are quiet. Only very few people in Berlin ride Rohloffs, but many of them do ride them intensively. I am one of them, having two bikes with a Rohloff. The good thing about a Rohloff hub is, that you can take them to the next bike (the highest recorded milage is almost 500,000km, which is mental). I like your aerobar-setup, I put it on my rigid MTB as well.
I never saw any when I visited Berlin a few years ago, but I did see many more internal hubs than I see here. This hub has about 2000 km on it now and it isn’t really noisy. It’s just on the noisier side of traditional gearing. I’m very satisfied.
@@UnchainedCyclist You probably visited as a tourist and I can assure you, that I will avoid touristic routes on my daily commute if I can do so. I would say that Rohloff sells most of their hubs to either Touring cyclists (mostly used outside of cities) or heavy-ish commuters who will optimise their routes to avoid congested areas and also tend to stick to the morning and evening hours. But compared to hilly cities like Stuttgart, internal gear hubs are in Berlin way more prevelant (30-50%) whereas the Rohloff is maybe 1% or less of those hubs. In Stuttgart the number of Rohloff hubs is significant higher but then other interal hubs are less common.
Great vid! I stumbled upon it while looking for the most recent rohloff videos. I was thrilled because I also have a Disc Trucker (albeit more recent than yours so a rohloff conversion would be more complicated because of thru axles). I was even more thrilled when I noticed you're in Montreal as well! Did you do the rohloff conversion yourself or did you have a bike shop do it, if so which?
Thanks, it’s a Zefal frame pump. They come in different lengths for different frames, but they actually fit into the little nipple at the front and spring pressure in the back. I use a Velcro strap to make sure it doesn’t go anywhere, but I think that’s just me being over cautious.
