Originally Posted by
buddiiee
It's old and beat up lol. (also, when I had it on my old trek as a kid, I thought it was garbage with zero miles on it lol. Suntour went out of business, must mean something lol) My brother turned this into a 'gravel' bike and it's quite beat up now.
Short story long- Suntour missed the mark on indexed shifting- They thought precise friction shifting was the future of cycling- Shimano had a larger budget and had been preparing for SIS. The public really wanted clicking shifting. The failure and warranty of the Mountech derailleurs and the tanking of the Japanese economy just kept putting them further and further behind Shimano-
https://www.mechanischehirngespinnst...of_suntour.pdf
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