The name has been bought and is still in use but it is not a coninutation of the same company. I believe that all the original Suntour tooling was destroyed when the original company shut down.
>From the artical Sunset For Suntour: "At this point, the old Maeda-SunTour had disappeared, and a new company, SR SunTour, had taken over. SR SunTour maintained two offices in Japan for R & D and for Japanese sales. Taiwan Sakae Ringyo used the SunTour brand name because it had better recognition. Taiwan Sakae Ringyo was a Taiwan component maker, like Falcon, Joy Tech, Long Yi, or SunRace. SR SunTour owned the name "SunTour" but they did not own SunTour's patents, intellectual property, or the rights to any of the pre-1995 designs. Various people tried to buy the tooling for SunTour Superbe Pro components, but Mori sold the tooling for scrap." Larry Powers "just when you think that you've been gyped the bearded lady comes and does a double back flip" - John Hiatt > Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:38:24 -0700 > Subject: [RBW] Re: Suntor? > From: len_gilb...@yahoo.com > To: rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com > > > They're still around, now called SR SunTour. I have SunTour cranks > (chainrings) on my 2008 Raleigh One Way. http://www.srsuntour-cycling.com > for current product, more history at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suntour > > > On Mar 26, 4:54 am, George Strickler <chobur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I was searching in old bike stuff last night to find a small thing and > > came across a Suntor Cyclone GT derailleur. Whatever happened to > > Suntor? It seems to have disappeared in one of those periods when I > > wasn't paying attention. > > G > > > _________________________________________________________________ Express your personality in color! Preview and select themes for Hotmail®. http://www.windowslive-hotmail.com/LearnMore/personalize.aspx?ocid=TXT_MSGTX_WL_HM_express_032009#colortheme --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
