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Old 05-05-10 | 10:58 PM
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Originally Posted by milkcratebasket
Suntour managed to spend tons of cash on the wrong areas and went out of business. I would assume these are Taiwanese made because I hadn't seen them before. I checked out the Suzue situation a few months ago in Osaka in a parts catalog and the shop owner told me what I said above. That being said they should still be of high quality. I think it is just minor details.. but that is regarding their standard track model. I hadn't seen these ti recently on ebay and here.

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Suntour's hubs were made by Sansin... some of the smoothest and most beautiful hubs I have ever handled have been Sansin / Suntour.

One might use Campagnolo as a benchmark for how good a hub is and Sansin hubs are their equal in every respect.
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