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Just to counter-balance the above, I have an Alfine 11 Di2 controlled hub and it's miserable. I have to adjust it every 10/14 days (~70km) or so, otherwise gears 5 & 7 slip. In fairness, the fix is just pressing some buttons on the Di2 display unit but on a manually controlled unit I can imagine a huge headache. I don't change gears under power (though I do share the bike with my wife who might be less kind on it) and service it when required. It started happening almost immediately, after maybe 400/500km of riding. The 1000km service did nothing to help.
There's been some chat about Alfine 11 on the cargo bike thread and like the above, some people have had positive experience and some (who seem to work on cargo bikes as mechanics) have not. YMMV.
RubberDucky-
Thanks for the opposing view - does seem very hit and miss doesn't it?
Have come to the conclusion that sticking with my current 10 speed Deore setup makes most sense, with the option to switch to stainless steel single speed mode with the help of Bikepunx for snow/winter duty. Don't want to be churning through cassettes and chains too too often...
trigs
Awesome, that's very reassuring. I found a video of someone using the Rohloff service kit and was wondering - the fact Shimano doesn't recommend a separate cleaning solution always threw me a bit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS8TLpUHs10