Happy Valley
Active Member
They always seemed to me like a wonderful solution for chain driven motorized bikes. If Dave Staton likes them, they are well made.
The weight issues comes with some serious mountain bikers I know, their prefernce seemed to favor the Shimano Nexus 8 which comes in around 3 lbs. but more even money too.
Also, I came across this on an electric bike board a while back, dunno how accurate it is but the guy is talking about dyno tests that reveal a 1/3 loss in power through the NuV:
http://www.endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5845&p=92409&hilit=NuVinci#p92409
The weight issues comes with some serious mountain bikers I know, their prefernce seemed to favor the Shimano Nexus 8 which comes in around 3 lbs. but more even money too.
Also, I came across this on an electric bike board a while back, dunno how accurate it is but the guy is talking about dyno tests that reveal a 1/3 loss in power through the NuV:
http://www.endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5845&p=92409&hilit=NuVinci#p92409
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