SR - School Me.
10-27-22 | 07:03 AM
#27
Extraordinary Magnitude
Joined: Aug 2009
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From: Waukesha WI
Bikes: 1978 Trek TX700; 1978/79 Trek 736; 1984 Specialized Stumpjumper Sport; 1984 Schwinn Voyageur SP; 1985 Trek 620; 1985 Trek 720; 1986 Trek 400 Elance; 1987 Schwinn High Sierra; 1990 Miyata 1000LT
I think it's cute, and I've done it before.
When you're just searching for something- either as a Google search or you're actually searching BF threads- come across something, get involved... and then you respond to someone... oops... Then again, I recognize a lot of the names that pop up that are no longer around... And it is horrifyingly embarrassing to read some of the stupid **** I posted. Just as I will be horrifyingly embarrassed to read the stupid **** I post 10 years from now...
And for the record- don't consider SR stuff to be low end- just ubiquitous- it was on everything, everywhere.
When you're just searching for something- either as a Google search or you're actually searching BF threads- come across something, get involved... and then you respond to someone... oops... Then again, I recognize a lot of the names that pop up that are no longer around... And it is horrifyingly embarrassing to read some of the stupid **** I posted. Just as I will be horrifyingly embarrassed to read the stupid **** I post 10 years from now...
And for the record- don't consider SR stuff to be low end- just ubiquitous- it was on everything, everywhere.
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Commence to jigglin’ huh?!?!
"But hey, always love to hear from opinionated amateurs." -says some guy to Mr. Marshall.
Commence to jigglin’ huh?!?!
"But hey, always love to hear from opinionated amateurs." -says some guy to Mr. Marshall.
10-27-22 | 07:26 AM
#28
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Circa 1976, a Japanese trading company called Marui introduced the SR brand of bicycles to the USA market. The brand had its heyday in the mid-1980s and through that time was distributed in the USA by Windsor Enterprises, who operated out of various locations in the San Francisco Bay area. These bicycles were contract manufacture by various Asian sources, with Araya and Miki being the two most common, based on the serial number data that I've seen able collect. Marui also owned the Shogun brand of bicycles and in the late 1980s started phasing out their SR line, in favour of Shogun.
The SR component brand was owned and manufactured by Sakae Ringyo Kaisha, who were, to the best of my knowledge, unrelated to Marui. However, in the late 1980s, apparently as a result of Shimano's dominance in the bicycle component market, Sakae Ringyo started looking to diversify. They also changed their name to SR Sakae. Since they had lots of experience with aluminum and aluminum bicycle frames were becoming popular, they started building bonded aluminum forks and frames which were marketed under the Litage and Prism names, in addition to be rebranded by other companies such as 3Rensho and BH. These frames appeared circa 1988. However, probably to avoid confusion with Marui's SR brand, any decals bearing the company named, stated "SR Sakae".
So, Sakae Ringyo/SR Sakae (the component manufacturer) did build aluminum framed bicycles, but they do not appear to be related to the SR brand of steel framed bicycles of the late 1970s though the mid-1980s.
Last edited by T-Mar; 10-27-22 at 07:29 AM.
