The Sachs New Success was a well designed, well constructed and well finished piece of equipment - but Sachs was just not a fashionable name in the peleton - and it did not sell. A few years after the appearance of this model Sachs gave up the fight and sold their bicycle components division to SRAM.

If you have to bow out, this is not a bad model to bow out with.

I think this is the final version of the Sachs New Success, with cut-away pulley cage plates, ‘Centeron’-style guide pulley, sealed bearing tension pulley and titanium pulley bolts.

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1. •Brand: Sachs
   

2. •Country: Germany, manufactured in France
   

3. •Date of introduction: 1994?
   

4. •Date of this example: unknown (stamped ‘X5’)
   

5. •Model no: RN500 (Sutherland’s 6th edition)
   

6. •Weight: 229g
   

7. •Maximum cog: 32 teeth (stamped on cage)
   

8. •Total capacity: 28 teeth (stamped on cage)
   

9. •Pulley centre to centre: 50mm
   

10. •Index compatibility: 8 speed
    

11. •Chain width: 3/32”
    

12. •Logic: top normal
    

13. •Pivots: two sprung pivots
    

14. •Material: aluminium, with titanium pulley bolts
    

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