Here is the catalog of Suntour BL in 1981.
BL was produced for touring bicycle.
The group-set was composed of gear sifter, front derailleur and rear derailleur.
It was a higher grade model of Load-VX.
The blue fancy plate was put on the pantograph of the rear derailleur. It was an accent of design.
However, there was no characteristic part other than that.
Since the gear change system was "the slant pantograph" as well as the other series of Sutour.
The first aluminum derailleur of Suntour was V, and the appearance became smarter when Road-VX was developed.
As for the front derailleur, you could detach the inner plate by only loosening the hex bolt.
The purpose of it must have been the improvement of the maintenance.
By the way, there was another series Hero which has same design with BL.
But it wasn't printed in the catalog at hand.
I had seen Hero at a shop in those days.
There was a black plate model other than Blue.
Though it was a short-life product, it had been used for middle class mass-production sports bicycle.
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