Originally Posted by
Andy_K
But I've got this fantastic SunTour New Winner freewheel in such great shape!
Honestly, I'm not the L'Eroica type -- I just bought an 11-speed group for my '84 Pinarello -- but for some reason I just feel like I want to keep this group together until I manage to wear something out (the short reach brakes didn't work with this frame, hence the dual pivots and modern levers). Even the chain is original SunTour. I have thought about an HG freewheel. I've also thought about indexed downtube shifters. It's a slippery slope, technology. Before you know it I'd be slapping Di2 on this thing (though I am currently managing to maintain a full-on Luddite view of electronic shifting).
With the SunTour, you are actually better off without the HG Shimano FW INO. It shifts just fine. I have DT and HG on one bike and find that it is quite possible to have the chain between cogs and shifting back and forth depending on pedal load. Very disconcerting. With dumb FW teeth, the worst that happens is noise, but at least the gear you picked is the gear you get or it might perhaps do one shift. (Yes, yes, a carefully shifted derailleur never does these things and this points to user error. But as one who has ridden for half a century on DT, friction and is an ex-racer, well I still come into quick road upturns and slam the lever back a bunch and honk my way up. Pretty doesn't always happen. Sorry bikes, you are just tools. Tools I love but still, tools allowing me the freedom to ride.)
Ben