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Thing about motorcycles engine is that the tolerance is much tighter, so even if you run less oil, it's still work, damaging but work (have to be as you're doing 80mph on it!).
But bicycle components, they don't really have that tight a tolerance, if you run less oil in the hubs, you and the bloke across the Beijing Strait will notice it.
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Cheers, a lot less in this one.
Thing is, I've seen what the inside of motorbike engines and gear boxes look like when they've been run with insufficient lubrication, all metal filings and stuff, and this was not like that at all. The oil that was there was dirty for sure but really didn't feel like metal shavings.
I've been doing a bit more reading on forums and stuff and looks like Rohloff are dicks when it comes to selling spares. Some of what I read suggested that even authorised service centres will only swap the entire internal assembly and out of warranty that can be the best part of £1k.
At least SJS sell the gasket for the outer cover so we can put back what we undid today.