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Shimano Tourney?

  • 08-11-2011 7:56am
    #1
    Bluefoam
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    I am specking a bike as a gift for a friend and the bike I've focused on has Shimano Tourney gears. I've never heard of them, but presume, being Shimano, they should function well.

    Has anyone here had any experience of Tourney gears & what is your experience of them?

    This bike will be used purely as a town bike and for leisure rides around the park. The recipient will never want to do longer spins or any form of fitness training on it.


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  • #2
    Caroline_ie
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    TOURNEY has been developed to give entry level sport bikes a boost. It fully incorporates advanced Shimano functions including Dual SIS for front and rear index shifting, wide-range gearing and hub-dynamo capabilities. TOURNEY's finished form sets the appealing standard for entry-level components.

    Looks like it's positioned a level below Altus on the shimano website.


  • #3
    victorcarrera
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    I have a Raleigh hybrid with tourney 7 speed front and rear mech, and cassette,
    these parts are adequate for your needs. Mine has SIS thumb and index finger indexed shifters and this combination has required very little adjustment in three years (5000Km approx). I would avoid the friction and handlebar grip rotory shifters that sometimes come with tourney group sets.


  • #4
    Tonyandthewhale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,867 ✭✭✭Tonyandthewhale


    Tourney is the very cheapest groupset shimano make. It is very cheap, unsophisticated, heavy and imprecise compared to the nicer shimano stuff but it still generally works ok and is fairly robustly built (apart from the gripshifters) considering the price.

    Shimano tourney isn't the kind of thing you think about, it does the job but it doesn't add anything to the bike, it's just 'generic bike gears for generic bikes.'
    Tourney's better than the chinese knock-offs of tourney and it's available at a slightly lower price point than the cheapest sram stuff. If I was buying a cheap new bike I'd be more inclined to look for a single speed or a cheap 3 speed hub but these are hard to find and a lot of people prefer the reasurance of a wide spread of gears so tourney has a place I suppose.
    Provided the bike isn't going to be used off-road or for raciing or anything it'll probably be grand although if it's got gripshifters don't expect to have much choice of exactly what gear you're in for too long.


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