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Rohloff Internal Hub Gears / Re: Left-handed, shifting
« Last post by Mike Ayling on Today at 03:37:20 AM »
Rohloff produces, and SJS stocks, a left-handed shifter.

Blimey, 110 squids plus an eye watering freight charge!
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Member's Gallery / Re: Nomad in USA Part 2
« Last post by j1of1 on November 05, 2024, 09:10:23 PM »
Headlamp - rarely ever use it.  If pointing upward probably got bumped into that direction.   

Two panniers on front, two on back and an Ortlieb bag.
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Rohloff Internal Hub Gears / Re: Rohloff: "Below the 1.9 Threshold"
« Last post by mickeg on November 05, 2024, 08:24:15 PM »
In first gear on loose gravel, I have had wheel spin problems with my Nomad Mk II, both unladen and with a heavy load.  When your gear ratio is low enough and your hill is steep enough, loose gravel can be a problem because that low gear gives you a lot of wheel torque.

First photo, if you look down, you can see some switchback gravel road, I had a lot of trouble with wheel spin there.  But, I needed that low enough of a gear to climb the hill.  Each time it spun and I lost momentum, I would have to push the bike to the next turn where it would be flat enough for me to start out pedaling on the bike again.  I had a 57mm wide Schwalbe Marathon Extreme on the bike, that might have not had enough grip on gravel because of the tread design, the knobs are big and the grooves are small.  Bike was unladen.  There were several other mountain bikers (derailleur bikes) in the group I was in, they all pushed their bikes to the top, but I managed to pedal parts of that hill.
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Member's Gallery / Re: Nomad in USA Part 2
« Last post by mickeg on November 05, 2024, 08:11:55 PM »
Looks good. 

Your headlamp looks like it is aimed pretty high.
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Rohloff Internal Hub Gears / Re: Left-handed, shifting
« Last post by mickeg on November 05, 2024, 08:09:05 PM »
I see no problem with that.  Numbers will be harder to read, but you already know how to shift it so you probably almost never look at the numbers unless you are stopped.
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Rohloff Internal Hub Gears / Re: Left-handed, shifting
« Last post by WorldTourer on November 05, 2024, 05:58:01 PM »
Rohloff produces, and SJS stocks, a left-handed shifter.
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Rohloff Internal Hub Gears / Left-handed, shifting
« Last post by E-wan on November 05, 2024, 05:04:47 PM »
Left-handed, shifting

I've developed an injury to my index finger on my right hand, which may take several weeks to resolve and make shifting rather problematic.

Has anyone tried swapping the Rholoff twist grip shifter to the left side of the handlebars so you can operate it with your left hand.

Apart from having to retrain my brain to get used to this and twist it in the opposite direction to shift
can you foresee any complications with doing this?

Thanks

Ewan
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Thorn General / Re: Pics desired of Thorn Nomad with BikePacking Bags attached
« Last post by WorldTourer on November 05, 2024, 02:46:51 PM »
Here is my Nomad Mk3 size 540L with the Ortlieb Frame Pack in its 6L version. (link to bigger version of photo).

I got the Ortlieb bag because I wanted a roll-top bag. Frame bags with zippers are infamous for breaking.

As one can see, there is room left underneath the bag for mounting my pump.

I don’t use the triangle for water bottles. Instead, I find that feed bags are a superior solution for carrying water bottles. The Decathlon feed bag is cheap, but reliable for the long term, and it can fit even a Nalgene bottle.
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Thorn General / Re: Pics desired of Thorn Nomad with BikePacking Bags attached
« Last post by UKTony on November 05, 2024, 02:36:26 PM »
Accessing water bottles

I have seen custom made frame bags designed to allow use of the two bottle cages in the centre triangle  but not on a Nomad. The size of bottles one could use  I imagine would be limited and the cages would need to be the side entry type.
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Thorn General / Re: Pics desired of Thorn Nomad with BikePacking Bags attached
« Last post by UKTony on November 05, 2024, 01:24:33 PM »
The photo is a screen shot from the web,
I think it’s a Mk1 Raven (aka Rohloff) Nomad S&S frame. 

At the following link there is a photo of Tara Weir’s hybrid classic tourer/bike packing setup on her Mk2 Nomad.

https://followmargopolo.com/gear/

Of course, the geometry of the latest Mk 3 Nomsd is different to the earlier types so might give more options.
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