Mother's Day Gift

I had a great TreasureBike experience on Mother's Day.

Earlier the week before I had been in one of local shops where I am known. I was just chatting with one of the guys and we talked about "project" bikes. I showed him TreasureBike and he told me about a SunTour XC Pro bike he was building up -- and his hard time finding shifters.

We'll, I was a huge SunTour fan back in the old days. I owned and loved Campy, but greatly admired SunTour -- especially for their Superbe groupset. Next to Campy, I considered it to have the best finish and function. Heck, much of it was "Campy Copy". Shimano, for a long time, had adequate functionality, but poor finish quality. Of course, that all changed. However, when I started into off-road cycling, I held these notions and stuck with SunTour for a while. It was on my bike, and the bike I bought my brother (pro-deal discount during my bike shop days). Shimano now dominates and the SunTour of yore is long gone.

It turns out I had a few SunTour parts around waiting for something and this was it. I gave to my shop friend some XC LTD thumb shifters (2nd tier -- not XC Pro) and an XCE rear derailleur (3rd tier) on Mother's Day on the way to our celebration. It was a "pay-it-forward" TreasureBike experience.

What goes around come around. That's definitely at the heart of TreasureBike.