Originally Posted by
Tourist in MSN
There is some value there, but no carbon and no high end racing groups. Most of the value is to me since I built more than half of them up with the specific components that I wanted. So, I am not too worried.
The Rohloff hub is probably the most expensive single item, but Rohloffs are so rare in USA that almost nobody knows what it is. I have had a few people ask me why I have a single speed electric bike, they think the Rohloff is a motor. One of my neighbors is a bike mechanic, he told me that my Rohloff is the only one he has ever seen.
i was on a brief tour in northern il. On the i and m canal i ran into a british guy going the other direction riding a thorn with a rholoff. Pretty cool.