Mike DeMicco wrote:
> On Sat, 01 Feb 2003 19:11:50 +0000, Paul Southworth wrote:
>
>
>>In article <
[email protected]>, Mike DeMicco
>><
[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>Can someone tell me the cog thickness and the thickness of the spacers in a Suntour 8 speed
>>>cassette? Is the cog thickness the same as Shimano's?
>>>
>>>I want to get some custom spacers to space a Shimano cassette the same as Suntour's so I can get
>>>my 8 speed Suntour thumbshifters to shift better.
>>
>>I thought the center-to-center cog measurement was basically the same between SunTour 8 and
>>Shimano 8... I suggest you do a careful measurement with a caliper. I think you will find cogs
>>something like
>>1.9mm and spacers something like 3mm.
>>
>>If you are having shifting problems, I think it may not be related to cog spacing... I thought the
>>goofy SunTour spacing went away when 8-speed came out but I never sold any SunTour 8 stuff so I
>>don't remember the details.
>
> No, the spacing is not the same.
But it's not all that different, either. The superior design of Shimano Hyperglide cassettes
generally means that replacing a SunTour cassette wheel with a Shimano one will _improve_
the shifting.
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