Originally Posted by
ShadowGray
It's $20... a complete, functioning bike is worth way more than $20.
Go spend $50 on a tune-up and maybe other parts, and you have a winner right there.
Although I don't know how good suntour drivetrains are... aren't they a bit on the low end?
Sun Tour = "Poor Man's Campy" When this bike was made, only Campy was higher on the totem pole.
During the eara that bike was made, Shimano was still junk and only found on the cheapest of cheap department store bikes like the low end Wards, Sears, and J.C. Penny bikes. Even the higher end department store bikes had Sun Tour parts.
The deraillures he mentioned were among the first of the indexed shifting design (invented, by the way, by Sun Tour - NOT Shimano) and are of very high quality, and will out last a new Shimano 10 times over - just like it has out lasted a then contemporary Shimano deraillure.