I remember the TA pattern in the Sugino catalogs in the 70s but never thought they existed. Then I bought some chainrings on ebay over the past year.
Joe
At 10:28 PM 6/28/01 EDT, ABikie@aol.com wrote:
>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