List, Superbe is easy and derives from the french term meaning superior. In my youth, not knowing anything about it, we always called it Super Beee, instead of "Saaperb", sometimes i still refer to my old pronouncation.....
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-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org [mailto:classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org] Im Auftrag von donald gillies Gesendet: Donnerstag, 16. Juli 2009 08:47 An: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Betreff: Re: [CR] Names ...
I'll add some funny japan-names :
Suntour-7 ~ a 5-speed derailleur.
Handlebars, anyone?
SR Road Champion SR Road Custom SR World Custom SR World Champion SR World Custom-SL
Pick any one - they all weigh 305 grams (Ok, world custom-SL weighs 300 grams. Big whoop-de-doop!)
Sakae Royal = Nuovo Record Sakae Royal Super Light (SL) Sakae Royal Extra Super Light (ESL) = Super Record or beyond
I guess the company went out of business because they could not introduce a new top-of-the-line product :
Sakae Royal Extra Extra Super Light (EESL)
All that writing wouldn't fit on any of the components that they made, and the customers had a problem pronouncing it, "Sa-Kai EEEEEZL")
- Don Gillies
San Diego, CA, USA