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SpokeCount

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How many parts in a Rohloff hub?
« on: October 30, 2010, 10:48:06 pm »
First post here.  Greetings all!

Suppose you have a Rohloff with the EX box shifter.  How many individual pieces make up a Rohloff hub, including the shifter, cables, ferrules, etc?

You can count pre-manufactured parts (cables, housing, cartridge bearings) as 1 piece, or as many pieces.  That is up to you. 

For curiosity/nerdiosity's sake...

Thanks!
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julk

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Re: How many parts in a Rohloff hub?
« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2010, 12:08:09 am »
Purely a guess, how about 666 ;)
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Beave

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Re: How many parts in a Rohloff hub?
« Reply #2 on: October 31, 2010, 05:48:37 am »
Roughly 146 individual (counting multiple instances of the same part) components based on the exploded diagram.

All those parts broken down to ball bearing/race/seal level?? No thanks!
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SpokeCount

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Re: How many parts in a Rohloff hub?
« Reply #3 on: November 01, 2010, 07:01:52 am »
146 is a good number to start with.  I might have a hard time determining how many balls are inside the bearings.

I am trying to determine how many individual pieces must be manufactured and assembled to make my bicycle. It is a lot!  Especially when you take 36 spokes, 36 nipples, 36 eyelets, cable strands, bearings, and then a Rohloff, etc.
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