Eric - I've viewed the photo of your Cyclone GT as closely as possible. It appears to be completely identical to the short cage Cyclone that I have available, the only difference being the lengths of the derailler cages. Therefore, if you can't get that spring fix to work the simplest repair would be to use the derailler I have and just change out the short cage for the long one on yours. The advantage these Sun Tour deraillers have over some other makes is that the cage arm fastens directly to the spring body vs. having the spring assembly bolting to the jockey wheel. You can have mine just for the asking if you decide to go that route. George
On Wednesday, May 24, 2023 at 8:45:23 PM UTC-5 eric...@gmail.com wrote: > Thanks all! I have heard from several people now, here and outside the > forum, who have suggested bending a new tab. I saved the spring so I'll > give that a try. > > Drew: As far as I know the Suntour Cyclone Mark 1 short and long cage used > the same cage tension spring. I'm not sure if the ARX, XC or other mechs > would have a compatible spring. So I'll pass on those, but if you find a > Mark 1 short or long cage, I'm interested! > > On Wednesday, May 24, 2023 at 4:30:27 PM UTC-4 dblue...@gmail.com wrote: > >> Like Reginald suggested, I bent a new tab onto the end of one of those >> springs a year or two ago. It has held up so far, but the derailer is only >> in use as a tensioner on a dinglespeed. Getting the bend angled so that it >> would go back together correctly was a little bit of a nuisance, but if >> nobody has an intact derailer for you, give it a try. >> >> Dan >> >> On Wednesday, May 24, 2023 at 2:04:49 AM UTC-7 R. Alexis wrote: >> >>> Wonder if you can bend a new tab on the end of that spring to make it >>> work? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Reginald Alexis >>> >>> On Monday, May 22, 2023 at 4:39:54 PM UTC-5 eric...@gmail.com wrote: >>> >>>> Hello friends — On yesterday's ride I broke one of the tabs on the >>>> chain tension spring of my Cyclone rear mech. >>>> >>>> If you have a long cage Cyclone you'd part with please let me know your >>>> price shipped to me in Virginia, 22401. >>>> >>>> Thank you! >>>> >>>> Here you can see the spring and the bright metal from the fresh break. >>>> I even found the little piece of spring that broke free. >>>> >>>> [image: cyclone1.png] >>>> >>>> [image: cyclone2.png] >>>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/75a818ee-a881-4fc7-86fe-f86b25f24baan%40googlegroups.com.
