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Originally Posted by noobinsf
No, no tension adjuster. I have a couple of these, as well as a Blue Line and first/gen Cyclone, and none have adjusters. Didn't those start appearing on derailleurs with index shifting? I honestly don't know, genuinely curious.
Barrel adjusters are important to make indexed shifting work reliably, but early SunTour non-indexed derailleurs also had them (e.g. V-GT, V-GT Luxe, V-Luxe, etc.). I don't think any of the Cyclone or Superbe models had them, though.
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