Originally Posted by
The Golden Boy
I think Suntour/SR dropped the ball with the possibility of naming the CR crankset the Cyclone- with the spider arms looking sort of like fan blades, you know, creating a cyclone... or maybe it's just me.
SunTour already had a Cyclone crank before the Sakae Ringyo CR crank came on the market. This crank was made by Sugino, before SunTour became SunTourSR:
And the CR crank was modelled after the earlier Ofmega Mistral crank:
N.B. the Mistral crank is much better finished than the CR crank, which appears to have been "melt-forged" (aka, cast) and merely tumble-polished:
