Fall from grace
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kaytronika
Retrobike Rider
GT are pulling out of Halfords soon.
Or Halfords are pulling out of GT. One of the two.
Or Halfords are pulling out of GT. One of the two.
Whatever happened to Suntour?
In the early to mid eighties, Suntour and Shimano started to make some nice road bike components and were sort of level pegging in terms of quality and performance. Both were more affordable than Campagnolo, which everyone that could afford it used.
I lost interest in cycling for a few years and when I returned in the early 90's, Suntour components were nowhere to be seen on mountain bikes. (Did Campag ever produce any MTB stuff?)
They still exist: http://www.srsuntour-cycling.com/, but I haven't come accross any bicycles which use their components, other than the odd, fairly low end bits and pieces, and the components don't seem to be available separately anywhere.
In the early to mid eighties, Suntour and Shimano started to make some nice road bike components and were sort of level pegging in terms of quality and performance. Both were more affordable than Campagnolo, which everyone that could afford it used.
I lost interest in cycling for a few years and when I returned in the early 90's, Suntour components were nowhere to be seen on mountain bikes. (Did Campag ever produce any MTB stuff?)
They still exist: http://www.srsuntour-cycling.com/, but I haven't come accross any bicycles which use their components, other than the odd, fairly low end bits and pieces, and the components don't seem to be available separately anywhere.
xerxes":1cd4fclb said:
Suntour forks are meant to be getting better to be fair to them... though the MTB cranks are toss! I think they lost it when Shimano left them for dead in '89 with the introduction of Hyperglide.
Campagnolo produced some very lovely MTB kit, here the '91 Euclid groupset, courtesy of
http://campyonly.com/catalogs/
