On aime!

Speedhub 500/14

Since we have converted to the Rohloff system we are enjoying 14 effective speeds with a very wide range of 526% between the 1st and the 14th gear. Everything is inside the hub and there is only one shifter to access all the gears. The gears are always clean and the wear is minimal. Denise and I love it! Up to now, we have been riding 46,800 trouble free kilometres with the Rohloff!

          

Since summer 2016, we are riding on a Hase Pino Tandem and we love it. The bike allows us to share the biking experience as a couple an be in sync in every phases of our journeys. We both are in a position that allows a perfect view of the scenery and nobody is left behind in a long climb or on a bad day. We got our Pino tandem from RAD Innovation in Middlebury Vermont. The owners were very helpful and were kind enough to let us try a bike for a full day so we could appreciate if we'd like it or not...and we sure did! Since we are traveling heavy with 6 paniers and camping gear, we built a stronger back wheel and integrated one of our Rohloff hubs.

Velocity Wheels

We have started riding on Velocity NOBS rims in June 2014. We had trouble with cracked rims in the past  and we were looking for something much stronger to build our wheels. In their rim lineup, Velocity has a rim named Atlas and their marketing positioning  is that "it can hold the world". When we explained that we were riding fully loaded bikes with 75 pounds of gear on the racks on each bikes I challenged the Sales representative and asked if they would stand behind their rims for a 2 year Bike Tour in South America where 60% of the riding surface would be gravel. Without hesitation he said! We have ridden 28,842 kilometres (253,000 meters of vertical drop) on these rims and retired them because the breaking surface had become to thin with all the breaking we did in the Andes!  Excellent rims! We sure will buy these or the Atlas version again!