Wanted: Where / when on earth will I find a NOS Suntour Superbe Pro rear derailleur?!

Good grief. I've been looking for one now for almost a year! They must be rarer than hen's teeth.

Does anyone have any good ideas as to where one might be found?

So far my searching has consisted of scanning ebay and do the occasional google to see if anything recent pops up from other forums.

Why NOS?

Ask Hilary Stone: http://www.lfgss.com/thread33316.html

Why NOS?

Because everything else on the build is NOS and to have something that is not would be like mixing marmalade with Marmite.

could you not use a slightly older/used one until a NOS one tuns up?

I'm not diminishing your build by any means, but out of curiosity what will you do with the bike once it's finished - presumably it's unrideable with this level of component searching / NOSing?

How anal are you?

Surely when you start to ride it none of it will be NOS...?

How anal are you?

that's a very personnal question

I'm not diminishing your build by any means, but out of curiosity what will you do with the bike once it's finished - presumably it's unrideable with this level of component searching / NOSing?

Why would it be un-rideable? Not something you'd leave locked with one of those shoe-string cables outside the local chippy certainly. But there's middle ground.

could you not use a slightly older/used one until a NOS one tuns up?

How very dare you!

How anal are you?

Very. It annoys even me sometimes, only sometimes mind.

Surely when you start to ride it none of it will be NOS...?

That's partly the point.

Call Suntour and ask for Mr. Tom Suenaga. Send him my regards. No joke.

Sort it out, Joel... Get the mech, ride the bike... Lesson ends...

Why would it be un-rideable? Not something you'd leave locked with one of those shoe-string cables outside the local chippy certainly. But there's middle ground.

Just meant that you sounded quite committed to NOS yet as soon as it's ridden then it no longer is the think that you spent a year looking for so I was wondering if you were building it to ride or to keep somewhere (another response answers this).

Buy an OTP.

*ducks, runs, hides, laughs like a hyena*

Sort it out, Joel... Get the mech, ride the bike... Lesson ends...

Fuck you Larry.

;)

Buy an OTP.

*ducks, runs, hides, laughs like a hyena*

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...

Call Suntour and ask for Mr. Tom Suenaga. Send him my regards. No joke.

You have PM.

Still looking? I have dibs'd this for you http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?p=859746#859746 please let me/ him know asap.

Has this been resolved yet?

Still looking? I have dibs'd this for you http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?p=859746#859746 please let me/ him know asap.

ha! awesome, tel! have some rep for that shit

Tel! Thank you so much, have only just seen this sent you a PM. You superstar!

:D