Bicycle Mechanics - 38t Suntour freewheel

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ezman
05-20-05, 10:16 PM
Has anyone gotten a derailer to work with one of these. The only known derailer to work is a Suntour AG and they are too hard to find. I have tried a Huret Duo Par and a Suntour Mountaintech. (ps I agree with Sheldon to spell the thing as derailer)
TIA

froze
05-21-05, 07:54 AM
Derailer-derailleur, the first is the English way and the second is French, the bike world uses the French spelling. We should also use the tyre spelling instead of tire since that would show the difference between being tired and riding on a tire. I also prefer the Shamano spelling over Shimano due to the Sham part more accurately defines the company...eek must be a Saturday.

My Shamano Deore, XT and XTR works with 38 Shamano gears but according to a bike mechanic about 5 years ago was that Shamano works with Suntour. My road bike has all Suntour Superbe components and when the Suntour Winner Freewheel wore out I replaced it with a Shamano with no problems.

Also supposely Sram and SR Suntour makes a derailleur that works with the 38 tooth gears. It may be easier to just change out the freewheel to Shamano since they are cheap at around $25 and then use whatever derailleur you have.

BUT I am not an expert on the 38 tooth situation, I'm just going by memory on a conversation I had with a mechanic that wasn't a conversation I took much interest in since I wasn't doing that. Hopefully a wrench will respond and correct what I said.
Retro Grouch
05-21-05, 08:12 AM
Derailer-derailleur, the first is the English way and the second is French,

My Shamano Deore, XT and XTR works with 38 Shamano gears

That's funny, I thought that the English spelling for derailleur was "mech."

Anyway, are you sure you're talking about 38 tooth freewheels, not just 34 teeth? Years ago I used to have a Suntour five speed freewheel with a 38 tooth big cog on my frankenbike tandem, but I also had a Suntour AG Tech derailleur to access it. It worked fine if you could live with the HUGE spaces between gears. I think that it went 14,17,21,28,38. I'd rather ride with a more modern drive train.