[CR]Suntour bar-end shifters springs

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Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 21:13:53 -0400
From: "Harvey Sachs" <hmsachs@verizon.net>
Subject: [CR]Suntour bar-end shifters springs
To: wfbibb@bellsouth.net, Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>


Frank Bibb wrote:

I have a pair of SunTour bar end shifters and the small "z" shaped spring that provides most of the holding power has broken in one, thus rendering it useless. Does anyone: 1. Know where I can get replacement springs (might as well replace both) or 2. Know how to convert them to full friction (or otherwise make them useful) or 3. Have a good one for sale or 4. Have any other advice on this topic

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I've just checked, and to my eye the coil spring and the ratchet (which looks to me like a 9 with the tail bent backwards) are the same for the down-tube, bar-end, and thumb shifters. Of course, according to Rivendell, later bar-ends (at least) had finer ratcheting than the earlier ones.

harvey sachs
mcLean VA