[CR]Rino Crono rear derailleur

(Example: Production Builders:Cinelli:Laser)

From: "Louis Schulman" <louiss@gate.net>
To: "classicrendezvous@bikelist.org" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 19:34:12 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <20040317001957.68287.qmail@web60206.mail.yahoo.com>
Subject: [CR]Rino Crono rear derailleur

I recently acquired a Rino Crono rear derailleur on eBay. It appears to be a very high quality Italian knock-off of a mid-70's Suntour Cyclone. The derailleur has very unusual removable screw pivots and ball-bearing jockey wheels.

The thing is, unless Rino (whoever they were) had a license, the derailleur would clearly violate Suntour's patent on the slant parallelogram design.

Does anyone have any information, history, or experience with this derailleur and/or the company that made it?

Thanks,

Louis Schulman
Tampa, Florida