Equipment/Product Review (1976) SunTour Winner freewheel
11-03-21, 10:06 PM
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Equipment/Product Review (1976) SunTour Winner freewheel
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Nice shadetree tech details -- thanks for posting, as always!
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I don't think I've seen the first generation Winner before. Nice to see that they managed to evolve to a simpler design. I wonder why they wanted three different diameters of threaded cogs?? The smallest allowed them to use a 13T cog, which makes sense.
In the later New Winner, they got it down to two sizes of threaded cogs, and in the final version. the Winner and Winner Pro, they had two sets of splined cogs and just one size of threaded cogs.
In a lot of ways, the Perfect & Pro-Compe were pretty advanced, with just one size of splined cogs and one size of threaded cogs....
of course, you could only get a 14T small cog, but that was good enough for most of us.
Steve in Peoria
In the later New Winner, they got it down to two sizes of threaded cogs, and in the final version. the Winner and Winner Pro, they had two sets of splined cogs and just one size of threaded cogs.
In a lot of ways, the Perfect & Pro-Compe were pretty advanced, with just one size of splined cogs and one size of threaded cogs....
of course, you could only get a 14T small cog, but that was good enough for most of us.
Steve in Peoria
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11-04-21, 07:07 PM
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Thanks for posting that article. I have several of those freewheels and like them. When I put the steel-armed Campagnolo Sport crankset on my International, I used a 14-24 aluminum cogged Winner freewheel to partially offset the weight gain due to the crankset.
The oddity of these is the third diameter of threaded cog that locks the bearing races, which isn't shared with the other Suntour freewheels. Since that is also the cog I spend the most time in, I was worried about wearing it out. When I was on a call with Yellow Jersey to buy three of his cheap sew-ups (3 for $50) I asked him about the possibility of getting one of those sprockets with 18 teeth. He said he wasn't sure what he had, but when my package arrived the sprocket (NOS) was in there. Lucky me! Other than a couple of Nervar Star chainrings that I have accumulated over the years, that is also about the full extent of me "buying forward" to protect against future failures.
The oddity of these is the third diameter of threaded cog that locks the bearing races, which isn't shared with the other Suntour freewheels. Since that is also the cog I spend the most time in, I was worried about wearing it out. When I was on a call with Yellow Jersey to buy three of his cheap sew-ups (3 for $50) I asked him about the possibility of getting one of those sprockets with 18 teeth. He said he wasn't sure what he had, but when my package arrived the sprocket (NOS) was in there. Lucky me! Other than a couple of Nervar Star chainrings that I have accumulated over the years, that is also about the full extent of me "buying forward" to protect against future failures.
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