Originally Posted by
berlinonaut
You can mount the Rohloff shiftbox the other way round (cables facing upwards) - I had to do this on one of my bikes. Looks like this could free enough space. A bit more of a change (but with success guarantee) would be to get rid of the external shiftbox completely and to switch the Rohloff to internal shifting.
I use to have internal shifting, one year ago I changed all my bikes to external much better and easy to fit on the road