Not to argue about whether they were just marketing companies, but some Univega frames seemed unique. I haven't seen their early '90s Bi-Axial Power Oval frames on any other brand bike. Seems like most of those companies specced their frames to be built by other contractors, pretty much like Vivitar did with most of its Series 1 lenses -- they didn't manufacture them, but many of those lenses weren't available from any other brand. That's pretty much the standard for many brands for the past few decades -- they spec designs and materials that are built by other contractors. Then, years later, afficianadoes develop cults and try to identify which mystery shadow companies actually made which models.


That Cimarron looks pretty comfortable. I may add that to my local search list. I'm still pondering the perfect errand/casual group ride bike.