Someone asked Rohloff how long their bicycle hub gears last, and the answer was, "We don't know. We've only been making them for 25 years." A lot of German SME

Someone asked Rohloff how long their bicycle hub gears last, and the answer was, "We don't know. We've only been making them for 25 years." A lot of German SMEs still work that way, even if their big engineering companies have rather lost their way.