67tony 

What bike brands are coming equipped with the NuVinci N330 hub? (Non-electric bikes...)

I know about Harmony, are there others?

Darth Lefty 

There are two commuting forum sometimes-regulars who have them, @TransitBiker and @Robert C. Maybe they can comment about performance. I think their bikes, a Breezer and a Novara, had them from the factory, and quick Googling shows Novara Gotham still has one though Breezer stopped.

ShortLegCyclist

I'm assuming you mean the N360, yes? There is no N330 that I know of.

Dahon Mu N360 (may be discontinued now)
Bike Friday has a few models it's offered on, but the sales reps will steer you away from them.
Jamis Commuter 4 (may be discontinued now)
Yuba Mundo cargo bike
Various recumbent and tandem bikes.

Robert C

Correct, I have a N360. As I understand the new N330 is lighter, which seems backward for me. The lower range seems like it would be best suited for an e-bike. It is possible that it is both lighter and stronger, I really don't know because there are no reviews of the N330 out yet.

As far as the N360, I like it. I like the 'no tinkering' reliability. It is on my commuter and is well suited for that. The commuter is a Novara Gotahm. It's no lightweight even without the NuVinci.

I have since gotten a second one. The second one I got was on a trike for my wife. It was a good choice. The complexity of the gears, as she saw it, was one if the factors that turned her off from biking. The N360 was much more intuitive for her to operate and she is now out riding without my being there or my prompting her, something that never happened before.

I am considering adding an N360 to my trike just to end the constant tinkering with the rear derailleur. However, due to the weight and slight inefficiency (possibly imaginary) I will not be adding one to my "fun" bike.

To be clear, I have not seen, or seen any reviews about, the N330; but I have also heard about it.

67tony 

Apparently instead of offering a 360% range of gear, the N330 offers 330%...whatever that means! As I was browsing I saw a technical sheet comparing the two, including specific gear ratios, but I forgot to bookmark it. Probably, it was somewhere on the Fallbrook Technologies site, linked here: NuVinci® Technology | Fallbrook Technologies Inc.

The N330 is new, and described briefly here: NuVinci unveils cheaper continuously-variable transmission for bicycles

67tony 

I found the page applying NuVinci's technology to cycling.
I'm thinking that my wife, like Robert's, would really appreciate the simplicity .

N330/N360 - Products - nuvincicyling.com

fietsbob

Reading the site, the gear range is smaller ,

330 is a 1.65x overdrive, the 360 its a 1.8x overdrive, the reduction ratio 0.5x is the same .

both are 2.45 Kg. so no lighter.

Robert C

Thanks, I hadn't seen that document. I don't know where I got the idea that the N330 was lighter. Clearly both the N330 and the N360 are shown as being the same weight (2450 grams).

67tony 

My wife will likely never be in the full overdrive gear, so the N330 is what I'll be looking for.

fietsbob

salsa frames with the swinging dropout can be used with those hubs, there is a screw that moves the dropout back
to take the slack out of the chain

TransitBiker

I believe ASI dropped the uptown infinity with the last breezer lineup refresh. They didn't sell well enough.

- Andy