Giant made the Excursion trekking bike in the early '90s that used the lever-operated Sanyo. There's a thread somewhere around here from the last year or so where a guy posts his find of a crusty complete bike he's restoring, and forum member [MENTION=24271]wahoonc[/MENTION] has a couple of the bikes so he may chime in here. I have used both the Sanyo and the Soubitez but neither were remotely operated. The Sanyo is still on one bike but the bearings are going out and the Soubitez has been removed from the other.