[CR]Suntour LOVE

(Example: Framebuilding:Restoration)

Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 23:53:16 -0400
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "Jeff Slotkin" <jeffslotkin@home.com>
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Subject: [CR]Suntour LOVE

At 12:25 PM 9/11/2001 +0900, kenji fusejima wrote:
>Hello;
>
>I got the answer about this Suntour. I heard from the president of
>"Suntour Museum". It is the cheap derailleur named "LOVE". It was used for
>the cheap bicycle for ordinary use (in Japanese "MAMACYARI"). It was used
>with a 3-speed freewheel and a thumb shifter for index shifting. I heard
>that it was competitor of the Shimano 3-speed Hub Gear in Japanese market.
>
>It seems that it has lost outer shell made from plastic (black or white).
>Please see the page on "Suntour Museum".
>http://member.nifty.ne.jp/~suntour/rd/nlove.html
>
>Kenji Fusejima
>Tokyo Japan

Just the name is worth a few bucks. I always thought "SunTour Love" was just a condition of the heart.