Originally Posted by redneckwes
I'm really still a complete noob.
But with the Sugino crank, and the Suntour Group it's a definate "Suntour Mafia" effort, with quality stuff sourced from any company in Japan other than Shimano.
From what I have seen, Sunhine (suhshin?) would have made the hubs, my Rampar is all Suntour/alligned stuff, although way the heck down the food chain, I'm pretty sure it has low-flange Sunshine hubs.
I remember about the Suntour/Shimano split, but I guess this was before the JASCA (Japan Sports Cycle Association) split in to JBM (Japan Bicycle Manufacturers) and the JEX (Japan Bicycle Parts Manufacturers Group for Export Promotion) and Shimano went to the dark side. It has a Dura Ace headset (could be a replacement, maybe?) The thing that makes me think not is that those snazzy housing clips on the TT are also Shimano.
Good call on the association grouping. It had totally slipped my mind.