Sold FALSE SUNTOUR XC PRO CRANKS

[Rod_Saetan]

MD cranks were having ithe GG decals on the spider OEM. As the MD cranks had a chromed shiny plastic axle bolt cover without decal, so some marketing needed to be put on them anyway. The steel crank axle bolt covers with Allen key bolt holes with decals were included with GG BBs as far as I know.

Ha! Yeah, could have just looked at these before

 

[Rod_Saetan]

This has been banded about previously;

https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/new-or-counterfeit-suntour-xc-pro-crankset.434742/
Very clearly stamped with Suntour CW XP10 on the back of the arms in the huge weight saving hollow. This is the correct part number for XC Pro. I actually think these could be prototype arms for the following year when Suntour went bust.

There is no way Suntour would have used the same model code for a completely different product - the XC Pro front hub stayed more or less the same through its short life, but still has a different model code between 1990 and 1992.

 

[Mochuelo24]

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[stew-b]

So sorry to turn your milk sour, but these are like Mickey Mouse: not genuine. Suntour went out of business just after the Microdrive cranks were on the market for about 2 years. I have their last dealer catalogue, the Japanese made cranks were never this shape. The boss deliberately scrapped the tooling, (the bastard!) while other companies wanted to buy it....

As Suntour Japan went bust, they were bought out/taken over by SR (Sakae Ringyo) and no patents/rights/intellectual property of the pre '95 designs were sold to them. The Suntour brand became a hollow name and manufacturing of low end stuff started/continued in Taiwan as some of their cheaper stuff were already made there.

Detailed info here:

https://www.mechanischehirngespinnste.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/sunset_of_suntour.pdf
I've also seen these cranks on evilbay, but was suspicious due to their shape. Earlier it took me 5 years to find a NOS set (for a very high price indeed), as they're rare as rocking horse manure. The maker/faker might have bought some NOS rings and made a small profit on the side, that bastard.

Very interesting read,thanks

 

[Mochuelo24]

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[Mochuelo24]

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