Nigel Dean Triathlon - Suntour Ole group

[rapepper]

Picked this up recently on impulse as new the name and had the 531 frame. Wasn't familiar with the Ole group-set. Some searching has revealed a little but it's still quite a mismatch - pedals by MKS, Accushift shifters by Suntor, calipers by Dia Compe yet all white with the Ole logo.

Unfortunately it's a little bit scruffier than it looks in the picture with quite a few rust spots

Need to decide it it's worth a repaint/powder coat. Alternatively I could through spares at it as a single speed hack for the summer.

Any opinions?

 

[MartinB123]

Ahh, I missed out on this by the skin of my teeth!

It's way too big for me anyhow, but glad to see it go to someone on here

 

[rapepper]

Ahh, I missed out on this by the skin of my teeth!

It's way too big for me anyhow, but glad to see it go to someone on here

TBH it's too big for me too. I keep thinking it looks OK in the photo and finding 62cm frames. I nearly said I'd leave it but I driven quite a way so decided to take a punt and see what it's like to ride.

 

[MartinB123]

Any more pics of this at all?

 

[Rod_Saetan]

it's still quite a mismatch - pedals by MKS, Accushift shifters by Suntor, calipers by Dia Compe yet all white with the Ole logo.

Suntour out-sourced a lot of the parts they sold to other Japanese manufacturers - Dia Compe, MKS, Sugino etc - why spend a load of money on tooling when you can get the crank/pedal experts to build it for you? Ole was Suntour's answer to Shimano Sante, also white and somewhere near the top of the range, it's fairly hard to find now, but not particularly sought after.

 

[rapepper]

Any more pics of this at all?

Sure - after a little maintenance and some new bar tape.

 

[rapepper]

it's still quite a mismatch - pedals by MKS, Accushift shifters by Suntor, calipers by Dia Compe yet all white with the Ole logo.

Suntour out-sourced a lot of the parts they sold to other Japanese manufacturers - Dia Compe, MKS, Sugino etc - why spend a load of money on tooling when you can get the crank/pedal experts to build it for you? Ole was Suntour's answer to Shimano Sante, also white and somewhere near the top of the range, it's fairly hard to find now, but not particularly sought after.

Thanks - I came to pretty much the same conclusion after some searching.

Now that I've trued the wheels, replaced most of the inners and re-taped the bars I took it out this morning for a short ride. Not sure I'm a fan of the 20c tyres but other than that it rides quite well

 

[MartinB123]

Bravo, that looks really good

 

[rapepper]

Bravo, that looks really good

Thanks buddy

 

[rapepper]

It's been pointed out that I have too many bikes so have decided this is the one I can let go.

If anyone's interested have posted it in the ebay forum:-

http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewto ... p;t=364765