Originally Posted by T-Mar

I just read the OP's article. Sekai continued to be available through Norco until 1990, not 1986. The actual takeover by Norco occured during 1983, for the 1984 model year. The quality did not suffer under Norco and Norco bicycles are not equivalent to Huffy. They are much better. Just search the forum and look at some of the Norco models. Norco did do some consolidation of their brands and the higher end Sekai models do appear to have been dropped, but both entry level and mid-range models were still available. Component selection was comparable to the competition at the various price levels.