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sd:
Sugru eBay 8 packs £9.74
https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=sugru+8&_sop=15

Andre Jute:

--- Quote from: jags on November 16, 2017, 04:08:33 pm ---Maybe so Andre but  it doesn't look half as good as Dura Ace ;)
imagine putting a Rohloff hub on say top of the line Colnago carbon  frame .
man talk about making a pigs ear our of a work of art.
--- End quote ---

What looks good to anybody, Anto, depends on their background. If you're an old bicycle racer, DuraAce might look good to you. I'm an old motor, boat and plane racer, so to me gear hanging out in the airstream, gathering grinding paste, just looks incompetently packaged. That's not all. i'm at heart an endurance racer, so to me derailleurs don't only look incompetently packaged but also stupidly underweight and fragile and vulnerable. As for the carbon bike, why should I want to be seen dead on it? I'm the original man in the grey flannel suit: I don't follow the fashion, I make it. As far as I can see, DuraAce* is a marketing gimmick for wannabe road racers.

For all those reasons (superior engineering, packaging and function) a Rohloff looks just right to me. Form follows function, me old son, and when you're as fast as I used to be, you really need a Rohloff. Besides, I tell the ladies I meet at the top of the hill that it's a single-speeder and invite them to feel my thigh-muscles.

* When I said Shimano gives you a lot for your money, I didn't mean DuraAce, which is overpriced bling for cafe racers. I first said it years ago, and I've never changed my mind: Shimano is fabulous value all the way up to Deore; any higher than that is for show-offs who need the name to confirm their manhood.

PH:
Shimano make great stuff, but they should have stuck with what they know - fishing.
Only kidding, my Nexus hub is fine, not in the same class as the Rohloff but for a tenth of the price I wasn't expecting it to be.

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