NOS Suntour New Winner 5-Speed Freewheel (13x30)

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New-Old-Stock Suntour New Winner 5-Speed Freewheel (13x30)...120 mm Spacing Thank you for your interest in this item and please visit our store for other offerings. We have very reasonable shipping terms and combine orders to save money (for customers) on shipping costs. We also maintain customer friendly return/refund/exchange policies. Product Description: This offering is for a new-old-stock (NOS) Suntour New Winner 5-speed freewheel (Model NW-5000) that includes a 13-16-20-24-30 cluster. Date coding indicates an 80's vintage, which makes some sense, as it was during this period that Suntour sales peaked, so their production runs were probably at their highest levels (which possibly helps to explain why we were able to locate such stocks 20+ years later). The New Winner model, in particular, is a very well made freewheel. The body is forged steel with ground ball (bearing) races for added precision and reduced rolling resistance. The sprockets are also made of a high grade steel with Suntour's trusted beveled tooth design, which provides for better and more reliable shifting relative to their European counterparts from this era. The classic silver finish is also very nice and probably the most common of the finishes we have noted on Suntour's higher quality freewheels. The one appreciable difference we have noted between the original Winner freewheels and these New Winner freewheels is in the design of the freewheel body to allow for the interchangeability of parts to create 5, 6 or 7-speed freewheels using this same body. We are not sure how beneficial this feature is in today's market, given the scarcity of Suntour parts, but there at least exists the possibility of rebuilding/modifying a Suntour freewheel with this particular freewheel body (assuming compatible spacers/sprockets can be sourced). In terms of compatibility, this is a freewheel, so it will only work with a threaded rear hub (as opposed to the newer splined freehubs that are more common today). The threading is English/ISO, so it's 1.37" x 24 tpi (threads per inch), which was probably as close to a standard as there was during this period...so fairly common threading to say the least. Although, we should also note that Italian threaded rear hubs are close enough to these specs that it's possible to thread an English/ISO spec'd freewheel on an Italian threaded rear hub. The only caveat is to avoid switching back and forth between English/ISO and Italian threaded freewheels, as there is still enough of a thread-pattern difference to prematurely wear-out/damage rear hub threading if this (switching back and forth) practice is employed. Having said this, we see so few Italian threaded freewheels on the market that this discussion is probably a moot point (as English/ISO threaded freewheels are the only models that appear readily available). Additionally, because this is a 5-speed freewheel, Suntour intended it to be used on a rear hub with locknut-to-locknut dimensions of 120 mm. In terms of condition, all of our Suntour freewheels (unless otherwise noted) are new and in their original box...although some of the boxes are shopworn. The boxes aside, we cannot believe anybody will be disappointed with the condition of the freewheels. A brief word about Suntour and their freewheel... Like so many of the Suntour components, there was a period of time during the 70's and into the 80's where Suntour was arguably producing some of the finest bicycle components in the industry. Their freewheels were no exception...and even as late as the very early 90's, we have read or been told by respected sources that Suntour index (or AccuShift / AccuShift Plus) technology was on par with Shimano's index (or SIS) technology...but by this time Shimano was so firmly entrenched and so much stronger financially (for a number of different reasons), that Suntour was unable to recover lost market share, which led to it's ultimate demise. As it relates specifically to Suntour freewheels, by the early to mid 70's they were considered as good or be... read more

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