Originally Posted by
AustinFitz
Thank you! After re-reading my previous comment I want to apologize for coming off so defensively. Being such a big fan of SunTour I guess I have a hard time accepting that the Mountech could indeed be THAT bad lol. The more I thought about it though, the more I realized that it's really not worth betting my original 40 spoke rear wheel on.
I'm still undecided on a replacement, but I do really enjoy the oddball stuff, so whatever it is will have to be at least somewhat different and interesting. It will almost certainly be SunTour though.
I've often thought about going with the LeTech since it's what would have come on the next model up from my Elite GT, but then I think if if going to swap the RD I might as well try to get away from the unnecessary 3 pivot design too while I'm at it. I've got plenty of time to think about it before I'll be able to afford buying anything though
I'm the one who's coming across like a dick- and I've re-written each of those posts over again to try not to sound like a dick... and then I read it after I post and roll my eyes at myself.
So much most everything Suntour did was so cool. No shifting solution is as cool as Command Shifters. The quality of the XC Pro stuff is so much nicer than XT or XTR. I can't find my chain takeup pix I did when I fell in love with my XC 3 pulley- it's ridiculous how much chain that elbow takes up. But the "tech" RDs are solutions to problems that didn't exist. Complicated for the sake of being complicated.