suntour superbe pro

[veyron.]

Has anyone got any parts for this grupo? if you've heard about it, its lank old so has anyone ridden it?

[dylankeyter]

what you planning to do with your dad's bike?

[TheLegend]

I had the cranks until the right side crank got a tear in it.

A friend of mine had the whole gruppo and swears on it.

I'd ride it any time again!

 

[GreyOwl]

Superbe pro stuff rocks!! Its OLD SCHOOL stuff, but its an absolute pleasure to use. I still have the hubs on my track racing wheels, and they are as smooth as my new Campy Record hubs. Dunno where you'd find the stuff now tho...

[veyron.]

Yea i have the full grupo and 4 sets of hubs? What do you reken its worth? Can you still by parts?

[TheLegend]

can't give you price information but if you are going to sell please let me know!

[dylankeyter]

mmm... sounds good !

[veyron.]

Yea sure will do! It seems like a pretty solid grupo

 

 

[TheLegend]

so everyone says. I was a bit disappointed when my crank broke but I still think highly of it...for some reason. A friend of mine who knows all about the good old gruppos says it's one of the best so I just believe him.

[Johan Bornman]

Suntour went belly up about ten years ago and although the name was purchased and revived by one of the lesser component companies recently, it now survives in name only.

Superbe Pro and it's "Ultegra" cousin, Sprint was a good gruppo with some of the best hubs I've ever come across, including Record and Dura Ace. Although front hubs are obviously still useable since nothing has changed there with the 100 OLD in 30 years, the rear hubs are unusable today as they are screw-on 7 or 8-speed  cassettes (freewheels). Screw-on cassettes in road sizes are extinct in South Africa and no-one that I know brings in any. You can still get them in 14-32, but that's useless for road riding. Further, the Suntour indexing system was not Shimano compatible. The RD didn't move in a linear fashion and the cassettesd had special spacing. The only way to make them work is with a Shimano RD and shifter or on complete friction shift.

 

As for the crank that got a crack, that's a fault of the pedal/crank interface. The pedal on all bicycle cranks graunches the crank and it eventually develops stress risers and cracks that propagate through the pedal eye. It is common on all aluminium cranks and will only stop once all cranks are either carbon or the pedal crank interface is redesigned to look like a car's wheelnuts with tapers.

 

 

 

Therefore, best keep your Suntour stuff in a museum.