when u buy a bike with a rohloff set up u should get a box of happy pills with it so as when it breaks down you can smile while you walk the next 50 miles to the bike shop. 
That's wicked-funny, Anto, but quite unfair, and totally untrue. Most Rohloff customers don't know where the nearest service agent is, and will never need to know. When rarely either something small or disastrous does go wrong, Rohloff service is easy and quick to get via courier.
Contrast two of my Shimano Nexus 8-speed hubs, which gave up the ghost at a few thousand kilometers. That's kaput, not some fixable problem. When I enquired about rebuilds I was told it would be cheaper to scrap the hub and buy a new one; the socalled service agent didn't even have a tool to open the thing, and had never heard of the oil change module Shimano offers (theoretically, you understand; I've never seen one actually for sale). You never hear that "scrap it 'cos it's cheaper" nonsense about a Rohloff, do you, then?
Nah, I think Rohloff comes with a lifetime supply of happy pills.
Of course, us Irish Rohloff riders will have to swim with our bikes to reach a service agent...
But then again, not wearing out all those chainrings and cogs and chains, and not paying for cleaning and oiling materials, like the derailleur luddites, we probably save enough on the Rohloff to hire a speedboat...
