Yup; it's looking that way to me too...
I was surprised though, as I'd heard that Mavic manufactured all their stuff except for the brakes. Since O.M.A.S. was machining Ti bits for Campagnolo, and they did hubs, BBs, headsets, etc., I thought their operation may be big enough for them to do their own cranks as well... I guess the investment in forging & crank tooling for both Mavic and O.M.A.S. would have been much greater than paying SR for their cranks. BTW- how common are those SR Royal cranks? I almost never see them; they seem as rare as the Mavic & O.M.A.S.
Cheers,
Duane Kennard
LA,CA
On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 10:22 PM, Chuck Schmidt wrote:
> Here's my guess as to the actual manufacturer of the cranks. Compare
> the size of the individual companies. MAVIC... small. OMAS... small.
> SR... large (Sakae Ringyo is second largest crank manufacturer next to
> Shimano).
>
> I'll go with SR
>
> Chuck Schmidt
> South Pasadena, Southern California