I have a different OMAS crank from this one that looks OMAS made. It is the beefiest 5 arm 144 mm dia.Campy type crank I have seen.
Joe Bender-Zanoni
Great Notch, NJ
>
> 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