Re: [CR] Gran Trashmo as exemplar NOW Schwinn touring RDs

(Example: Framebuilders:Doug Fattic)

To: <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>, <tymncycle@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 11:52:35 -0500
In-Reply-To: <936721.19411.qm@web82207.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
From: <dtshifter@aol.com>
Subject: Re: [CR] Gran Trashmo as exemplar NOW Schwinn touring RDs


Jerry Moos asked:

<<As an interesting aside, one wonders whether the Crane GS, rather than the corresponding SunTour, probably the VGT, was mostly the choice of Schwinn or that of the manufacturer Panasonic. Had these first Japanese Schwinns sported SunTour derailleurs, one assumes Schwinn would have gone that way with Paramount and Sports Tourer as well, and all the Japanese and US made touring models in the late 70's and early 80's. That might have been enough to allow SunTour to survive.>>

Since Fuji used Suntour, Dia-Compe, Tange and MKS, and was certainly a competitor of Panasonic, perhaps Panasonic wanted to set themselves apart from Fuji?

Who knows for certain?

Chuck Brooks Malta, NY NEUSA (where nice fall weather is now a memory)