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A beautiful thing, only really for the new breed of Omnium packers (makes a sick long to ultra distance touring rig), but weight saving over the standard alloy one isnt' that much, pretty sure its solidly under the 1 kg mark anyways?
Unfortunately gone well off Omnium since they've been using the Nexus 5 as their standard hub, maybe its good for Denmark + Netherland environment, but for UK where your almost constantly on some sort of incline, gears are too far apart, clunky and high % of out of the box failures (similar to old Nexus 7 if any techs have recovered from the PTSD on those things), and also I'm gonna say not great for mid drive use, especially urban use where your constantly slapping gears. The nexus 5 was supposed to be a torque proof, mid drive acceptable, reliability monster, and instead, I mean I had two customers who had more than 5 replacement hubs EACH in 1 year, threatening to return entire bike under consumer law, and this went on for 3 years. Shimano just never really giving an explanation. You get a good one they are pretty solid, you get a bad one, they can explode on 1st day.