[CR]Franco-Asian R&D?

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From: <ABikie@aol.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 22:28:23 EDT
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]Franco-Asian R&D?

Clues, anyone? R&D Ripoff and Duplication? I thought I had at least one of everyhing, or more. A few weeks ago someone came in to the shop for some chainrings, 6-bolt TA pattern. Outer and two inner/center styles

I , of course, found them in the stashes, brought them in to the shop

I called him and said the TA rings were in. 'I have the Sugino super Maxy' he said

I said, "Super Maxy?"

I remember Super Maxy as a 5-arm swaged-spider/ring Sometimes both rings removable, others inner(s) only

Lo and behold, he came in and I now own the super Maxy set (in 180mm no less, while all their others were in odder sizes like 165, 168, 171, 175) I traded even up for a modern Sugino Impel or something like that. It's 100 interchangeable with TA 5-pin arm-to-outer, 6-bolt otherwise bushnut-connectors.

I also have some original Deer-Deore 5-pin TA style, even one with DynaDrive

Anybody have anything like these Sugino/TA knockoffs?

Larry 'Cranky' Black