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Old 03-14-05 | 05:26 PM
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Suntour Components c1985

Hey, my bike has Suntour Cyclone MKII deraileurs, on both front and back. Does this ring a bell for anybody and do you think, assuming they are still in good shape, that they are good equipment? Anybody have any links to some product reviews?
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Old 03-14-05 | 08:38 PM
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I've got Sun Tour Superbe components on a road bike of that era, and with tens of thousands of miles on them; everything but the rear deralieur is still working fine. Don't know much about the Cyclone MKII, but my view with these things I never "upgrade" till I have to. Hope your derailuers give you years of fun! They just might.
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Old 03-14-05 | 09:26 PM
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I've got those components on two of my bicycles. Those bicycles are also circa 1985 or so.

I've put a lot of miles on both bicycles and the components are, for the most part, still in decent condition.
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Old 03-14-05 | 10:29 PM
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SunTour made excellent components. Unless you have an itch for index shifting or a gearing combination they won't handle, there's no point in upgrading.
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Old 03-14-05 | 11:05 PM
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Bikes: 2005 Seven Odonata (DuraAce /Reynolds),1983 Trek 950 (Mavic/Suntour/Regina), 1986 Stumpjumper Shimano/Suntour/Regina), 1986 MASI 3V, (Campy/Mavic/Regina) 1995 Schwinn LeTour (Suntour/Wienmann/Phil/Shimano/Regina): All Brooks Saddles

Suntour made the best shifiting stuff I have ever used.

Raced with Superbe Pro for years and have Cyclones (the real ones) on a touring
and mountain bike. ll work as well as when they were new in the mid 80's.
Stuck a Mark 2 on my old racing bike so I could have a 26 or 28, and it
works really well too.

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