Originally Posted by
GhostRider62
What a blast from the past, I can't believe how many of these beauties that I owned at one point. The Superb was a very underrated product, it shifted incredibly well in its era and was elegant.
Heck, they shift incredibly well today. So well, in fact, that if I'm building a friction-shift bike, I'm using a Suntour Superbe / Superbe Pro or a Cyclone unless I've got a really good reason not to. The 1980 Superbe that I posted above is shifting a 45/42/30 x 14-26 half-step triple. Despite totally blowing past Suntour's 23T max cog / 22T chainwrap specs, (I'm at 26/27,) it shifts beautifully, solid thunk every time... even with the not-great OEM LePree levers.
--Shannon