yeah, was thinking of putting one on a spare Orange E8 frame i've got knocking about. Skinny tyres and using it as a commuter and winter off road bike. I think the alfine is £200 plus the cost of building up a new rear rim. But me hope minis are ****, so good time to swap to shimano, but will need Shimano rotors (if the hope's won't go on the alfine hub?)and i'll have to change the front hub to shimano, so all of a sudden it's starting to look expensive..back to a new merida cyclocross on the bike to work scheme.
Anyone know if i can run hope discs on a shimano hub, is there a converter?
Also, forgive my ignorance but can i only run a single chain ring at the front and whats with the tensioner, one i saw had what looked like bottom part of a rear mech hanging down from it.
Anyone know if i can buy all the bits on the BTW scheme?
sorry for the slight hijack and more questionsthan answers ton.