Internal gear hub / belt drive question

coldeverything

Excuse me if this sounds a little daft. Can you get internal gear hubs to work on racing drop bars? What sort of shifters are required. Would love to have a belt drive commuting bike with drop bars. Cant go single speed as I have too many hills to cope with on my daily commute. Thanks for any suggestions.

jeepie

I have a hub with flats, but I was VERY interested in an alfine with drops. I think "Bombersque" has done it... Will try to find the thread. From memory it was a self build....

jeepie

Here you go. It's possible.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hiawathacy ... 347659679/

http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtop ... fine+cotic

I don't have the know how yet myself....but perhaps you can get someone to build it for you.

TomS

I've been looking into the same thing.

You can mount the grip shifter on the bar end like Sheldon Brown

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/harris/bian ... index.html

or jtek produced a bar end shifter designed to work with hubs, not sure how easy they are to get hold of though

http://jtekengineering.com/jtek_bar-end_shifter.htm

Tom

TomS

Here is a UK retailer

http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/category-Gea ... ub-639.htm

coldeverything

Thanks people. Some good information there and I have to say I'm hopeful that I can get something sorted for next year. That Alfine Crosscheck is very close to what I'm after but I do like the idea of the belt drive. Something like a Trek Soho, take of the flat bars and put on some drops with that bar end shifter. Could that work??

TomS

I guess you'd also need to think about the brake levers if you wanted to change a soho (or similar) to drop bars.

desweller

I guess Shimano's next step is to make Di2 shifters work with their hub gear products. How cool would that be?