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Originally Posted by jwasbury
^few people will still be riding any Suntour stuff these days...I am one of those few. My '93 Breezer has a Suntour drivetrain, 7 speed Accushift. I had to replace the rear wheel and its tough finding good quality thread-on freewheels now, let alone Suntour. I ended up with a used Araya RM20 laced up to a period Shimano Deore XT 7 speed freehub. The Suntour Accushift levers index perfectly on the Shimano cassette, believe it or not.
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I believe it. My primary all-rounder bike since 2009 has been a Rawland cSogn that I built up with an all-Suntour drivetrain, purely out of iconoclasm (it replaced a lovely 1991 Bianchi Via de Oro, a sort of flat-bar XO-1, that had been intelligently specced with XC Pro and not a single Shimano part on the entire bike) - XC Pro cranks and derailleurs, and Command Shifters on the bars (how's that for retro?) I've run it that entire time on Shimano-spaced cassettes which, as you know, shift about 95% perfectly. At the beginning of the year I decided to make it my Albatross-bar bike and switched to XC Pro thumb shifters, and put an early 90s Shimano LX derailleur on it because the reverse-pull XC couldn't move the cage out quite far enough to not rub on the chain when on the outer ring, and I didn't feel like replacing or re-spacing the bottom bracket just for that when I could swap a FD in 1/4 the time.
My willful-iconoclast days are largely over, but I'm a Shimergo fan - my rSogn, my co-primary bike with the cSogn, is running 10-speed Campy Chorus levers shifting an 8-speed Shimano drivetrain, which again shifts about 95% perfectly.
I do still have a couple of virtually new XC Pro rear hubs and freewheels in my parts stash.