Touring Bikes With Rohloff Hub

This is trek s longest running touring bike and bicycling s editors deemed it one of the best trek bikes of 2018.

Touring bikes with rohloff hub. Unlike derailleur gears there is no overlapping. The rohloff speedhub 500 14 is an internally geared rear hub that has been servicing the demands of bike travellers for a few decades now. The wayfarer rohloff tourer is our version of the traditional british light touring bike but updated for today s use. What is a rohloff hub.

Bikes fitted with hub gears. A rohloff tandem single convertible travel bike as a single rodriguez 8 ball a rohloff tandem single convertible travel bike as a tandem rodriguez 8 ball a rohloff micro travel tandem that will pack in carry on luggage rodriguez model 20 14 stainless steel commuter road bike with rohloff and gates belt drive rodriguez makeshift a his and her pair of rohloff touring bicycles rodriguez. It is superb german engineering mighty fancy stuff and quite excellent. The rohloff hub keeps all your gear changing hardwear away from the elements.

We ve also learnt that by keeping things as simple as possible our customers benefit from greater reliability. With a steel frame rack and mudguard braze ons and a wide range of gears. Well a rohloff frame may not be as expensive as you think you can get yourself a rohloff specific frame for under us 500 399. The rohloff internally geared hub has been on the market since 1998 and features 14 gears.

The rohloff tour uses the same tried and tested frame geometry as our other bikes we learnt early on to stick with what works well. They re not cheap though. I really like touring with a rohloff hub as they offer a nice range of gears minimal maintenance and surprisingly they run really efficiently too. Why choose a rohloff hub for bicycle touring.

Do you like the idea of a custom rohloff touring bike build. 14 real gears a huge 526 overall gear ratio and a 13 6 linear gear increments just facts. This 14 speed internal gear hub offers a gear range that s wider than the most popular mountain bike derailleur systems and it will run for hundreds of thousands of miles requiring nothing but an annual oil change. Inside the oversized hub shell are 14 gears which offer almost the same gear range as a regular drivetrain.

This 14 speed option features a rohloff hub the ultimate touring hub gearset favoured for its world class reliability. The benchmark transmission for touring cyclists rejoice in the shifting ease and simply enjoy your cycling experience far off the beaten track in the knowledge that your bicycle transmission will never let you down.