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Old 07-25-21, 11:38 AM
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Originally Posted by GhostRider62
I doubt anyone could feel the 6-8W of a dyno hub of 3-5 watts of a Rohloff hub. Imperceptible doesn't mean irrelevant

I am a low power, efficiency minded rider.
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I am clearly a low wattage rider too. But on a bike tour, usually I can travel a shorter distance in a day if it is a day with uphills or headwinds. My last tour (pre-Covid), there were some 10 or 11 hour days in the saddle because the campsites were not closer together. Usually I strive for something more like 6 or 7 hour days on a bike tour. I am there to enjoy the trip, not win any awards. Being retired, I can take trips longer than a week, so I do not have to plan out my trips based on a limited number of days anymore.

The photo below was the road on a 14 hour day. There were stretches where I could not go over 8 km/hr because of the bad washboarding. When you don't bother to steer around rocks that are smaller than a tennis ball, that tells you how bad the road is. This is the type of place I bought that bike for.



But, because that is my only S&S coupled bike, for international trips I take that bike even if a lighter duty bike would be better.

Another photo of that bike.



I think I had about one week of food on the bike when I took that photo.
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