Possible to convert an Enviolo to a Rohloff?

[Jeremy McCreary]

you can see my HR average was higher on the HS Rohloff which makes some sense - I was leaning into it with the extra gearing enabling me to go faster, but the seat being a bit low did mean I was having to work a bit harder too.

May have been partly the carrot effect that several of us have observed, wherein greater speed (usually due to greater assist) leads to greater rider power output without conscious intent. Result: I usually get a better workout in SPORT than in OFF or ECO.

In your case, the greater speed came at least in part from higher gearing, but you still got sucked into working harder.

 

[sammcneill]

May have been partly the carrot effect that several of us have observed, wherein greater speed (usually due to greater assist) leads to greater rider power output without conscious intent. Result: I usually get a better workout in SPORT than in OFF or ECO.

In your case, the greater speed came from higher gearing, but you still got sucked into working harder.

Quite likely.

What was noticeable was I was moving much closer to the speed of cars, so was being over taken less which I hear in theory keeps you safer...if you can be moving at aprox the same speed as traffic there is a reduced chance of an 'incident'

 

[Chazmo]

And yes, definitely it's undergeared for high speed in my mind

Sam, I’m just curious… What kind of bike is this? It’s ludicrous that a road (or even gravel) bike doesn’t have gearing to maintain 25MPH at a moderate cadence. Would a taller chainring (or whatever it’s called for a belt drive, if that’s what you have) do the trick or is the low gearing what you need at slow speed? I guess if it’s the latter, than the enviolo isn’t good for you.