Internal Gear Hub Mountain Bike

The advantages of having an internal transmission on your mountain bike are many.

Internal gear hub mountain bike.

Internal gear hubs or igh are gaining a lot of popularity in the bicycle world taking over the traditional derailleur those who go on biking tours and commutes find it the most helpful. We also weighed the bike. The bike now weighed 27lb 12oz. Internal gear hub cons.

I wasnt positive that my gear calculations were correct so we decided to let susanita give the bike a try. More expensive quality internal gear hubs cost a lot of money for example a rohloff speedhub costs as much as an entire mid range bike at around 1600. So lets get down to basics first the alfine gives you a range of gearing that is about like a 32 tooth chain ring paired with a 36 10 cassette something that doesn t exist. Yesterday was my first actual mountain bike ride with the internal gear hub and i m happy to report it was successful.

A shimano nexus or alfine costs as much as an entire mid range derailleur groupset at around 200 400. External drivetrain owners who ride often might replace their chain cables and housing three or four times per year and the chainring and cassette once annually. And i was scared. That was a lot of extra weight.

Rear internally geared hubs for mountain bike 250 items found from ebay international sellers new shimano sg s7000 alfine 8 speed internal gear hub 32 or 36h black or silver.