Originally Posted by
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That exact crankset, albeit in unembellished form, was a high-volume, forged, aero-styled production item used by many OEM's and with Sugino branding.
Was it the AS model? Aero Strada perhaps?
It quickly became dated though with it's 144mm bcd limiting the smallest chainring size, as Shimano's market share was increasing and even Campagnolo was on the verge of rolling out various smaller-bcd cranksets of their own.
Looks to be the same as the AS on one of mine. I love the look but yes, the 144 bcd limits some choices as to what to do with it