Touring Equipment

This seems to me to be not entirely true.
from http://cyclingthe6.blogspot.com/2010/12/nubian-way.html

So whilst a great hub, trying to claim they have never had a hub fail is foolish.

This mirrors the experience of a chap I know who's had trouble with his Rohloff flanges shearing off. Mind you, I think these tales come to the foreground specifically because there are so few other problems. We don't fret endlessly about the failure of seals on XT hubs do we? Oh, hang on...