Thread: Strange hexagonal BB axle
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Old 12-25-22 | 09:21 AM
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Originally Posted by Hondo6
Um, no. SR never owned SunTour.

According to Frank Berto (see his "Sunset for Suntour" article), SR was bought out by Mori Industries (a Japanese steel tubing company) in 1989. In 1990, Mori bought out Madea SunTour, combining the two entities shortly thereafter. The resulting company was called SR SunTour (likely to make use of both SR's and SunTour's name recognition).

The bottom bracket under discussion in the Amazon link above was apparently made after Mori combined SR and SunTour. Given SunTour's extensive expertise with bottom brackets, I'd guess it was made by the old SunTour division - but that's only a guess.
Ok yes, technically Mori bought SR and then bought the name of actual SunTour. The bottom bracket from that link is pretty new with the SR ST logo. Maybe not current new but not old enough to be actual SunTour.
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