multimodal commuter
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I haven't ridden a brevet of any length with a Rohloff hub, but I had one on my tandem for a few years and did some long hot rides around New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia. When it was hot and I was dripping with sweat, I found the twist grip shifter became increasingly difficult to use. My tandem has an upright style handlbar (north road bar) so the ergonomics of the shifter were in my favor, but it still wasn't very good. I would love to mount the Rohloff on a bike for brevets sometime, but I have not seen a drop bar shifter hack that looked promising enough to bother with.
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