Re: [CR]" VINTAGE/RARE! SUNTOUR DERAILER/ N.O.S. "

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From: <RALEIGH531@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 06:50:01 EDT
Subject: Re: [CR]" VINTAGE/RARE! SUNTOUR DERAILER/ N.O.S. "
To: QYP02710@nifty.com, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


Thanks Kenji for getting to the bottom of this. I was fooled, thinking it might be something special from Suntour's early days.

Pete Geurds Douglassville, PA

In a message dated 9/10/01 11:30:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time, QYP02710@nifty.com writes:


> 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