Sunrace Mountain Components
October 7th, 2007 by Arleigh JenkinsI stumbled across photos Sunrace’s blog tonight on their mountain components. I guess they debuted at the Interbike Dirt Demo but this is the first time I have seen photos or word about anything. There aren’t any shifters displayed on the blog, but digging through their website it looks like something is in the works with their page holders. (If you are into the roadie scene they also have road parts, including shifters.)
Photos borrowed from Sunrace. Visit their blog or real website for information!!
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I kept cruising by their booth trying to get a glimpse of the mountain bike stuff, especially the shifters. All I saw was the roadie stuff and a couple SRAM equipped mtb’s sitting around at the Outdoor Demo.
Add these guys to the big list of companies that didn’t even say hello to me while I was poking around their booth. Weird!
At http://www.sunrace.com Products they talk about their 2004 product line???
Yeh… It seems like interbike isn’t the only thing they were behind about.
Sunrace USA is a one man operation. He’s a nice guy, maybe a little over his head in terms of amount of work required, but a nice guy none the less.
My mtb team has been running their chains and cassettes for the past few years and we love them!
The only shifters I’ve seen of theirs are the crappy 8 speed shifters some brands put on “nicer” hybrids. They’re more finicky than most 10 speed shifters I’ve set up, don’t feel very durable, and one of the levers is a little too high to get with your thumb. At that level of bike, shifters really need to be pretty tolerant of sloppy shifting, and they’re not.
We tried out their high end 9 speed shifters. Push, push set up. I didn’t like them. It took a while to get used to the push, push thing, that’s me. But, the couldn’t be rotated back enough (the were stopped by my Avid levers) to be comfortable and where I needed them. I took them off the race bike and are now on the mtn tandem. One of the guys at the shop broke his right away when putting it on his bike, pulled the cable through too hard and the insides crumbled like dry bread.