Hi all.
I'm fitting Suntour Symmetric levers to a frame that originally had outer cabled-guided gear wires under the bottom bracket shell. The plan is to use them with a "endless band" type Cyclone 2 front mech.
There are 2 problems:
1) If I attempt to take the gear cables to the brazed on stop on the down tube, they inevitably rub the paintwork, because the cables at the levers are in about the "ten to two" position, whereas the stops are at about "twenty to four".
2) The band on front mech has no outer cable stop (they actually supplied a removable stop with the clamped version), the expectation being that the mech would be operated by bare cable. It would work just fine with an under shell plastic guide.
I have a faint recollection that Suntour's expectation at the time was that cables would be routed OVER the bottom bracket shell but I can only seem to find clunky bolt-on chromed bracket things that look quite out of place against the whole 80's sleek aero look I'm going for. This also creates a problem at the other end of the chain stay for the rear mech; There's a brazed on stop for it on the underside that would have to be replaced by an ugly bolt-on stop here too.
But Suntour were quite the smart innovators, right? How did they expect this setup to work? My web searches have returned no pictures of a Symmetric installation other than close-ups of the levers.
I do need a little work done on this frame, so I could have all the old stops cut off and re-positioned I suppose. Is this my only option?
Cheers,
Z
PS/ Why did they call it "symmetric" anyway? The whole idea was that the integral cam made it asymmetric...
I'm fitting Suntour Symmetric levers to a frame that originally had outer cabled-guided gear wires under the bottom bracket shell. The plan is to use them with a "endless band" type Cyclone 2 front mech.
There are 2 problems:
1) If I attempt to take the gear cables to the brazed on stop on the down tube, they inevitably rub the paintwork, because the cables at the levers are in about the "ten to two" position, whereas the stops are at about "twenty to four".
2) The band on front mech has no outer cable stop (they actually supplied a removable stop with the clamped version), the expectation being that the mech would be operated by bare cable. It would work just fine with an under shell plastic guide.
I have a faint recollection that Suntour's expectation at the time was that cables would be routed OVER the bottom bracket shell but I can only seem to find clunky bolt-on chromed bracket things that look quite out of place against the whole 80's sleek aero look I'm going for. This also creates a problem at the other end of the chain stay for the rear mech; There's a brazed on stop for it on the underside that would have to be replaced by an ugly bolt-on stop here too.
But Suntour were quite the smart innovators, right? How did they expect this setup to work? My web searches have returned no pictures of a Symmetric installation other than close-ups of the levers.
I do need a little work done on this frame, so I could have all the old stops cut off and re-positioned I suppose. Is this my only option?
Cheers,
Z
PS/ Why did they call it "symmetric" anyway? The whole idea was that the integral cam made it asymmetric...
