SunTour Cyclone 1st generation brochure
06-21-24 | 02:37 PM
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SunTour Cyclone 1st generation brochure
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72 Fuji Finest 76 Super Course, 72 Gitane Tours de France, 74 P-10 & 79 Tandem Paramounts, 75 Grand Record, 76 Grand Jubile, 84 Voyageur SP, 85 Miyata Sport 10 mixte 89 Cannondale ST400 and a queue
72 Fuji Finest 76 Super Course, 72 Gitane Tours de France, 74 P-10 & 79 Tandem Paramounts, 75 Grand Record, 76 Grand Jubile, 84 Voyageur SP, 85 Miyata Sport 10 mixte 89 Cannondale ST400 and a queue
06-21-24 | 03:22 PM
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I'll try uploading to Velobase. Feel free to upload as you see fit. I have this in PDF if anyone wants it that way.
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72 Fuji Finest 76 Super Course, 72 Gitane Tours de France, 74 P-10 & 79 Tandem Paramounts, 75 Grand Record, 76 Grand Jubile, 84 Voyageur SP, 85 Miyata Sport 10 mixte 89 Cannondale ST400 and a queue
72 Fuji Finest 76 Super Course, 72 Gitane Tours de France, 74 P-10 & 79 Tandem Paramounts, 75 Grand Record, 76 Grand Jubile, 84 Voyageur SP, 85 Miyata Sport 10 mixte 89 Cannondale ST400 and a queue
06-21-24 | 04:57 PM
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06-21-24 | 09:16 PM
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Supercool. Thanks for posting this!
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06-21-24 | 11:18 PM
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What the brochure doesn't tell you is that the regular cage and the GT cage are interchangeable and the the swap is easy. This had two advantages. Raced you last race but love that bike? Buy a triple and get your hands on a GT cage. Or, just riding the bejessus out of the bike and absorbing a few crashes while you are at it. Wreck the RD? Almost always the damage is to the parallelogram or the cage, not both. Go to a shop and ask to look through their box of trashed Cyclone RDs. Pay them $5 for one with the half you need in good shape.
I kept a Cyclone going 25 years and who knows how many miles doing the $5 rebuilds. It saw both style cages. My only gripe with the Mk I is that it couldn't handle 130 OLD. (130 in 1975? Who'd a thunk!)
I kept a Cyclone going 25 years and who knows how many miles doing the $5 rebuilds. It saw both style cages. My only gripe with the Mk I is that it couldn't handle 130 OLD. (130 in 1975? Who'd a thunk!)
06-22-24 | 08:22 AM
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Bikes: It's complicated.
8 speed cassette on 130mm dropout spacing on my Zero Bike, used on several credit card tours
Same setup, different bike, 130 spacing, 8 speed cassette:
On both bikes, hits all the gears.
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06-22-24 | 10:32 AM
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I think that both of Gugie's 130 mm-spaced bikes have integral hangers, not the bolt-on hanger.
06-22-24 | 06:05 PM
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Bikes: It's complicated.
I have a hate for bolt on hangers. Wondering what bikes that were made as 130mm spacing without integral hangers? Any?
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06-22-24 | 06:25 PM
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06-22-24 | 10:14 PM
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My one attempt at Cyclone MK I 130 didn't get low gear. (Campy hub and cassette.) Pulled out a later Cyclone and didn't look back. So I guess I could have tried harder.
BITD, a weak pivot spring would just mean that $5 busted Cyclone for the part.
BITD, a weak pivot spring would just mean that $5 busted Cyclone for the part.
06-23-24 | 02:44 AM
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I've used Cyclone II GT on an 8 speed cassette (126 OLD), filed the stop down about 0.5mm but the stop is easy to reach - unlike the VX-GT.
Another advantage of the Cyclone I FD is that it has a built in cable stop.
The Cyclone II FD seems to come in variations - some with the stop and some/most without.
Can be important on the older frames
Another advantage of the Cyclone I FD is that it has a built in cable stop.
The Cyclone II FD seems to come in variations - some with the stop and some/most without.
Can be important on the older frames
06-23-24 | 08:52 AM
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Thanks for posting that brochure.
Tim
Tim
06-24-24 | 07:27 AM
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Bikes: It's complicated.
Need more pix on this thread.
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