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  2. From: twjm8@isuvax.iastate.edu
  3. Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
  4. Subject: Re: Groupsets suck!!
  5. Message-ID: <C17pys.KtH@news.iastate.edu>
  6. Date: 21 Jan 93 16:32:50 GMT
  7. References: <C0uFAr.E41@cen.ex.ac.uk> <1993Jan14.212152.21190@Happy-Man.com>,<5883@gold.gvg.tek.com>
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  11. Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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  13.  
  14. >In article <1993Jan14.212152.21190@Happy-Man.com> Joshua_Putnam@happy-man.com writes:
  15. >
  16. >O.K., here's a naive question:
  17. >
  18. >What is the interchangeability of hubs and cassettes?  Is there any
  19. >compatability between, say, Shimano <-> Suntour, or even Shimano <->
  20. >Campy?  I haven't really checked these out, since I have early
  21. >Cretaceous technology on my road bike.  Now that I'm planning to bite
  22. >the bullet and convert to an indexing system, I'm interested.
  23. >
  24. >I'm talking only about the mating of the cassette to the hub.  I
  25. >understand the issues with the indexing not matching between brands,
  26. >and the rear dropouts spacing issues.
  27. >
  28. >Jim
  29.  
  30. On a similar vein, how about freewheels?  Would a Shimano freewheel and 
  31. a Suntour freewheel be interchangeable?  (I'm thinking mountain bikes here,
  32. fairly new components, i.e. XC Pro and XT or DX)
  33.  
  34. Dave
  35.