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Old November 27th 09, 10:55 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
pdxrandonneur
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Default Sram i-Motion 3 Speed Coaster Review

On Nov 26, 7:22*am, landotter wrote:
On Nov 25, 4:35*pm, pdxrandonneur wrote:

* Gear hub fans have never had it so good. With the formidable
maturity and reasonable prices of the Shimano 8 speeds, the
renaissance going on over at Sturmey-Archer and radical new (or very
old) designs like the Nuvinci, it is easy to overlook SRAM’s new three
speed. For three speed lovers, that would be a major mistake. This is
one of the best, if not THE best, ever made. I have ridden many three
speeds over the years, and loved them all (except for that 333 hub),
but I have never had as much fun as I am having on the SRAM.


Two caveats:


#1-This is the common complaint about gearhubs, but the grip**** is
God Awful. [snipped]


That's the clincher for me. There's only two shifters for infernal
hubs that I've ever liked, and that's a regular ole S/A trigger and
the first generation Nexus 7 speed. The Shimano grip**** are bearable,
and the S/A and Sram stuff is nasty.

snip

What we really need is a universal bar end/thumb shifter for all
single cable-pull gear hubs, with a removable indexing disc that could
be swapped out for different hubs. There are enough users of gear hubs
to make this a succesful product, and most of us would be willing to
fork over *a lot* of money for a really nice shifter if we knew we
could keep it on the bike after future hub upgrades.

-Rando

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