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Scenery, and top tip for saddle pack users: a bit of silicone tubing slit lengthways makes a good tube protector, to prevent rubbing.

I am having fun on my new bike, which is all that counts. Even if my wheels look shit :)

Functional.

In electric gears news, I really like the synchro shift mode.

I won't be riding this up anywhere muddy:

Tough crowd. I think the newer Shimano cranks are too chunky for the skinny steel tubes.

Bar end control box, and wires attached to brake cables.
Clumsily taped handlebars are my build signature.

I bunked off work early to go for a test ride.

Finally I put a blob of it on the back of the front mech to keep the cable tidy. That's the bit with the smallest clearance, it's right next to the side of the tyre. I've no idea how you'd get away with a mechanical front mech on this.

I put a lump of it at the back over the bit of Di2 wire that goes from the chainstay cable stop round into the breather hole underneath. It doesn't show, it's on the inside of the stay.

It's hard to make a big clunking square shifter boss look good, and I haven't. It's only about 1cm on each side though, it's not going to show.

The postman brought me some sugru, so I stuck it on my bike.

OLD on the alfine 11 (and 8, I think) is 135mm.

Yeah, that went a lot quicker than I expected it to.

Sold!

replied!

It's unbelievably easy if you buy a pre-built wheel from somewhere like Taylors wheels

For the cost of postage I will send you my warranty replacement Alfine 11 hub plus the rim and tyre it's attached to.

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/335535/

Sturdy 700c rim laced to a Shimano SG-S700 Alfine 11 speed hub, plus shifter. Also includes a Marathon Supreme tyre with some life in it.

I did 5000m km on this wheel commuting in the city, until the insides fell to bits and everything except the hub shell was replaced under warranty. I haven't used it since the warranty replacement, which means the internals are effectively unused. I replaced it with a different hub while it was being fixed and since then this wheel has been cluttering up my cellar.

Yours for the cost of postage, which is from Switzerland in a big box and comes to CHF60 or €55.

https://bike.shimano.com/en-US/product/component/alfine-s7000s700/SG-S700.html
https://bike.shimano.com/en-US/product/component/alfine-s7000s700/SL-S700.html

My main complaint with the Alfine 11 I had is that it failed completely after 1 year of city commuting. I had the innards replaced under warranty but haven't ridden the replacement at all, it's in my cellar. I'd get rid of it, but don't want to lumber anybody else with a hub I wouldn't ride myself.

In my experience (which is shipping to Switzerland not UK, but should be the same) the extra charge covers exactly those fees, and no more import fees are added.
I have come to quite like ebay's global shipping program.

I've just read through the whole thread, and the bike, the adventure, the photos... it's all magnificent.

Please keep going for another decade or so, with updates.

Then what you need is a cat ladder.

https://www.boredpanda.com/swiss-cat-ladders-photography-brigitte-schuster

"Bombtrack" always makes me think "bumcrack". I have no opinion about the bikes, never having seen or ridden one.

I had an Alfine 11 a few years ago, it was made of cheese inside and only lasted 5000km. Replaced it with a Rohloff, and it's taken me all over Europe without missing a gearchange.
I remember hearing the alfine 8 was a bit stronger but I've never used one.

I have seen that one on a web image search. It also appears with the proper fork and without the crabon wheels:
That one's got normal downtube shifter bosses, cable guides under the bb and chainstay, and a Gazelle logo on the seat tube cluster, so it must be the 1989 model, and it disappears from the price list after that.

I measured it again, my caliper pulled out a ring of dried up crud and now an M6 bolt goes in there. I feel such a fool. If it's M6 then for the other side I can dremel a bit off a spare brake caliper nut so it's short enough not to stick out.

Thanks all.

Told you it was controversial. I'm undecided, and the original fork is really shiny.

Wheels now 2.5g lighter each!

And a real question: the countersunk seatpost clamp bolt is much smaller than the spares I've got: those have heads about 12mm across and a barrel about 8mm. This one needs something like 9mmx5mm. Same length as normal, about 18mm. I can bodge something together, but it deserves better. Where can I get a seatpost clamp bolt the right size?

Sorry for shoddy diagram.