shimano/suntour compatibilty

[old school pete]

Can you run a shimano chainset with suntour thumbshifters, mechs and cassette, sedis chain?

 

[Bike Hoarder]

A shimano chainset shouldn't be a problem. Although i'm pretty sure a shimano cassette will cause issues with a suntour shifter.....

(Stands, foot tapping on the floor, waiting to be corrected!!!)

 

[Sithlord]

hi fella,


A suntour shifter would work fine with shimano rear block as long as you are prepared to run the shifter in the friction mode, (Non Indexed) if you run the suntour shifter on a non suntour block the indexing will be out by a bit

 

[cchris2lou]

I have run my xc pro shifter with a xtr cassette and rear mech with no problem .

 

[old school pete]

shimano/suntour compatibility

Thanks fellas. Finances are dictating what I have kicking about spare at the moment, until I get a suntour chainset.

 

[Agency_Scum]

Suntour+Shimano in indexed 7 speed= no
Ditto in 8 speed= yes.

 

[daveaasmith]

Suntour+Shimano in indexed 7 speed= no
Ditto in 8 speed= yes.

Interesting to hear that 8 speed combo will work - how so?

Also to chuck another related (hoping non-thread hijack ) question into this - how would a SRAM road cassette work on a current 8 speed Suntour MicroDrive system? Would the cassette even fit onto the hub?

 

[Fenland Dragon]

Suntour accushift - Shimano cassette

I have got the same problem running Suntour accushift X press and 7 speed rear cassette - It slips on 2 gears.

 

[gibbleking]

suntour xc pro thumbies and xt rear on mine, work just fine(smaLL AMOUNT OF POETRY)

 

[Agency_Scum]

Suntour changed their spacings when it looked like they were starting to lose the " compatability wars " of yesteryear.