Posts Tagged ‘internal gear hub’

“Bike building is a lot like the Internet. They both involve a series of tubes.” Elliott McFadden,Violet Crown Cycles Earlier this month, I wrote about the randonneur bicycle, a French style light touring bike, I designed and built for Marcus. It came back from powder coating a few weeks ago, and I built it up [...]

“Bike building is a lot like the Internet. They both involve a series of tubes.” Elliott McFadden, Violet Crown Cycles To followup on my initial post in this series on frame building, I wanted to share some of the work and challenges that went into designing a randonneuring bike for Marcus, my co-editor. The frame [...]

My experience: I installed the Versa shifter/brake levers on my Ritchey Breakaway cyclocross bike and rode about 150 miles over a two week period. Function: 5/5 Style: 3/5 Build Quality: 5/5 Overall: 5/5 Price: $229 ($199 for a limited time directly from Dynamic Bicycles, 1-800-935-9553) Summary The Versa integrated road bar shifter/brake levers are a [...]

In the last few months, I’ve written with great excitement about the introduction of the Versa Road Shifter, a STI style integrated brake/shifter for road drops with the pull ratios to be compatible with Shimano’s 8 speed Nexus and Alfine internal hubs. I’m a big fan of internal hubs for transportation bikes since they are [...]

In the last two weeks, I’ve written with some excitement about the possibility of running an internal gear drive train with a road bike setup with STI style shifter brakes. Bike Commuters let us know about a new bike, the Dynamic Synergy, that runs such a system with new shifters called the Versa from Taiwanese [...]

On Wednesday, we let you know about a new STI style road bar shifter/brake lever that was seen in a Bike Commuters review of the soon to be released Dynamic Synergy road bike. This shifter was of interest because it was compatible with Shimano’s Nexus and Alfine internal hubs giving road bike riders another option besides [...]