NOS Suntour XCD (4050 Series) MTB Brake Levers w/Factory Matched Cables/Housing

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New-Old-Stock Suntour XCD (4050 Series) MTB Brake Levers w/Factory Matched Cables/Housing and Black/Silver Finish
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Product Description:
This offering is for one set of new-old-stock Suntour XCD brake levers (Model BL-4050) from the late 80's. We've settled on this model designation after reviewing our late 80's and early 90's shop catalogs. So as many folks understand, this offering represents good Suntour quality in brake levers from the late 80's and likely intended for non competitive mountain bike applications. Although they should mount and function fine on any number of other bikes with straight or riser bars.
Let's also highlight some basic specifications that folks may find helpful. The lever dimensions (in terms of length x width using the longest and widest reference points possible) are 18 cm long x 9.5 cm wide (where the width includes the entire mounting bracket and extends to the front edge of the lever). As one would expect, the bar clamp is designed to mount onto standard riser/straight bars with a 22.2 mm tube diameter. I also weighed the levers and they come in at 294 grams (without cables/housing) and 440 grams (with cables and housing...and the factory matched cables/housing are included with this offering). Finally, Suntour was making both canti-lever and roller-cam brakes for their mountain bikes during this era, so either would appear to be a good match for these brake levers. It's our understanding these levers were designed with short cable pull specifications, which means they should also function okay when connected to traditional road caliper brakes (if there was a project out there that called for this setup). Although, not all direct cable pull calipers would be compatible, as newer model V-brakes require a long cable pull brake lever design (so these levers would not be a good fit for V-brakes).
As for condition, all the sets we have are new and in their original retail packaging (Suntour branded cardboard box). The black/silver finish still shows as new. There are probably going to be some light marks/scratches from years of storage, but the levers are individually wrapped in separate plastic bags and the factory matched cables/housing are sealed in a Suntour branded plastic bag (so each lever has been fairly well packaged/preserved over the years).
Brief discussion concerning Suntour labeling in the late 80's and early 90's...
For those that are interested, the pecking order of Suntour mountain bike groupsets with indexing capable drivetrains is somewhat confusing...due primarily to the various model number/name changes over a relatively short time period (from the late 80's to the early 90's...so the final years of the original Suntour company headquartered in Japan). To the best of my knowledge, there were anywhere from four to eight indexing capable mountain bike groupsets from the late 80's and into the early 90's...and these XCD (4050 Series) components were middle of the pack (and one step below Suntour's competition-level groupsets). So good quality bicycle components, but not designed for racing or other high-duress applications. I can also confirm Suntour originally referred to these components as part of the 4050 series groupset (and one step below their competition-level 5000 series components) in the late 80's. Although, at some point from the very late 80's to 1990, these components were rebranded as the XCD groupset (which placed them just below the competition-level XC-Comp groupset). I don't know the reason behind all the re-branding, other than it appears by the early 90's, Suntour was attempting to move away from labeling that included numbers in the branding name.
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