Retro parts still in production

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FluffyChicken":22mgi4ci said:
MatBH5":22mgi4ci said:
Royce bottom brackets and hubs...
Are they still the same as they were pre 97 or have the evolved?
(honest question?)

The ones I’ve seen have been pretty much identical. You can still get hubs for screw in freewheel, it’s all square taper (apart from their proprietary trilobe bb). I guess they’ve accommodated 11-sp road freewheels etc, but you can still order all the old standards.
 
FluffyChicken":exhnwmx4 said:
Rank_21":exhnwmx4 said:
FluffyChicken":exhnwmx4 said:
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When the design changes?
Otherwise SACHS chains are still being made as are HG chains.
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I thought Sachs chains were made by sedis who sold off their bike chain production to whomever...sram?
Exactly ;-)

SRAM bought Sachs who owned Sedis.
Is the Sedissport chain still made, as such.

Slightly inconceivable, that sedis continues to successfully make and sell chains, just not bike or motorcycle chains.
 
Isn't it really a question of whether any of these products are really the same thing as before anyway, given that so many of the companies and personnel have come and gone and occasionally risen again under the same brand, but little else.
Also, as bikes have changed, so has the product, and the corporations behind them...

SEDIS of France sold their cycle chain line to Fichtel & Sachs GmbH, a subsidiary of Mannesmann GmbH in 1987, to support the Sachs range of bike parts.
What then became Mannesmann-Sachs AG then sold all their bike business (including SEDIS chains and Sachs gears etc) to the aggressively acquisitive SRAM Corporation in November 1997.
SRAM (founded on Gripshift) went on to acquire RockShox (2002), Zipp (2007), Truvativ (2004), Avid (2004) to complete their collection for a groupset...much like Fichtel& Sachs had done 50 years earlier.

The parent companies still exist within the automotive industry:
Mannesmann-Sachs AG subsequently became ZF-Sachs, when it was acquired by the ZF Friedrichafen Group, with Sachs being their brand for clutches and shock absorbers.
SEDIS are still making chains in France, just not for bikes any more, and are owned by the enormous Muragappa Group of India, via TI Industries (who make 4 million bikes per year in India alone).

All the best,
 
TA still making chainrings, also still available in 94mm pcd.
Kool Stop brake pads - Eagle in red especially.
 
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