From very fallible memory: The first model year of Specialized Stumpjumper came with TA cranks, but I think by the second year they had a second-tier model that came with these Sugino TA-knockoffs. Shortly thereafter the TA look went out of fashion, replaced by the Sugino AT and the others that used its 110/74mm BCD, so I only saw the ones you describe for a year or two.
Mark Bulgier
Seattle, Wa USA
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ABikie@aol.com [mailto:ABikie@aol.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 7:28 PM
> 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