Comments on: Our bikes: Santos Travelmaster with Rohloff

By: Harry

Harry — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:59:16 +0000

Just a small update: currently 22000km, in Bolivia. After 2.4 years on two bikes the only problem we had is one broken spoke between us

applause for the Santos bikebuilders!

By: Harry

Harry — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:54:03 +0000

Thanks Michaelo. The Rohloff hub is definitely easier to clean and much easier to shift (you can even shift when not moving!). We missed suspension forks sometimes, but te extra weight, costs and risk were too much. The Cane Creek seat suspension we have are really nice, they take out most of the road shocks and we never have lower back problems.

Looking forward to Chile!

By: michaelo

michaelo — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:52:58 +0000

Hi,

I saw your post from Janeen’s site (no direction known). Thanks for the detailed writeup. It is impressive to see the choice of aluminum, I guess that dispels any argument that one must choose carbon because the ride on alum. is too harsh.

Interesting hub. I wonder if one additional advantage is that there are less shifting problems because it is easier to clean (less exposed parts), and so maintenance (except for oiling) is easier.

I think I would have gone with a suspension fork. I would imagine they could stand up to significant abuse and would make the ride much more comfortable, although I supposed anything could break, even the frame as you mention.

I don’t know much of the roads until you get to Chile, but some of those roads have huge rocks – although I did see mtn bikers on them. That was many years ago and may have changed by now, i.e they could be nicely paved.

Enjoy!

By: Harry

Harry — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:26:36 +0000

Hey Eric, you spammer!

Of course it is ok, I am already recommending our faithful Santos Travelmasters to many foreign BikeTravellers, so maybe they will contact you.

Of course, you should add a link to http://WorldOnaBike.com on that page: not just to give your foreign site visitors a great example of Dutch bikes in action -in English-, but also because Google will love us both better

And we were quite homesick, but a week in Surinam with pindasaus & roti has helped a lot. And we are actually in ‘Europe’ now, in France! At least their overseas part, but prices are in Euros nonetheless..

Cheers, Harry & Ivana

By: Eric Schuijt

Eric Schuijt — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:01:33 +0000

Hola Harry y Ivana,

I enjoyed your site. But euh…, not yet homesick?

While you are doing a bit cycling we are working hard in our shop.
We get more and more customers from outside the Netherlands.
This is due to our expertise ) But also because of the fact that people who live outside the European Union can get the VAT back.

I have written a piece on our website. If it is fine with you; here is the URL: http://www.vakantiefietser.nl/the-holiday-biker/

If not, do not hesitate to remove this spam;-)
And I am curious if you have met already cyclists that use the beltdrive?

Eric Schuijt