I'd buy one of those cool looking Suntour Rd's any day ! Man I miss Suntour stuff. I have no need or desire for a reverse direction RD though. On Tuesday, September 27, 2022 at 5:46:37 PM UTC-4 Luke Hendrickson wrote:
> It’s super cool! > > On Tuesday, September 27, 2022 at 6:20:03 AM UTC-7 eric...@gmail.com > wrote: > >> Wow, Luke, I've never seen one of those. I had to check out Disraeli >> Gears >> <https://www.disraeligears.co.uk/site/suntour_xc_derailleur_3_pulley_system.html>for >> >> more info. >> >> "So what in heaven’s name is this? SunTour were wrestling with the >> demands of the new mountain bikes, with their triple chainsets and huge >> gear capacities. They hated the very long pulley cages, which had limited >> ground clearance and irritating chain slap - so they invented the ‘3 Pulley >> System’. With one brilliant stroke it gave huge capacity with a relatively >> short cage. Ground clearance was restored, chain slap minimised. >> >> Fantastic - except for the fact that it looked so weird that, as you >> cycled by, dogs barked, babies cried and your friends laughed. At you, not >> with you. Sales were lamentably low." >> >> On Tuesday, September 27, 2022 at 2:14:50 AM UTC-4 Luke Hendrickson wrote: >> >>> [image: 40650634-AA3B-48BE-A3F3-09AC3632AB79.jpeg] >>> >>> I shall most likely be buying this as my friend (Jim of Merry Sales) is >>> involved, I want to support Riv, and this will officially be the only >>> good-looking contemporary rd made. That said, I happen to love what I’m >>> running rn: a three pulley Suntour XC from about 1986. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Monday, September 26, 2022 at 1:40:59 PM UTC-7 J J wrote: >>> >>>> Thanks for sending the excerpts, Eric! Super interesting to read >>>> Grant’s thoughts so early on. That was the seed that led to him to the >>>> wild idea of designing and then manufacturing his own low normal RDs. >>>> >>>> On Monday, September 26, 2022 at 4:10:07 PM UTC-4 eric...@gmail.com >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I was reading some Rivendell Readers this weekend and encountered a >>>>> few mentions of Rapid Rise mechs. Interesting to see Grant's takes when >>>>> Rapid Rise was new and in production. >>>>> >>>>> These are from RR 33 (Fall 2004) and RR 22 (Winter 2001). >>>>> >>>>> [image: IMG_2712 2.jpg] >>>>> >>>>> [image: IMG_2711 2.jpg] >>>>> >>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/08c602c0-d1fe-4d61-88fc-811a5b09d2c4n%40googlegroups.com.
