John Price wrote:
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> I doubt this is a very interesting company to most - not the cache' of
> Campagnolo say, or even Shimano perhaps but I'm curious about them. Can
> anybody tell me anything about SR, Laprade, and/or SR Laprade ? I thought
> I read way back when, that they had a French connection of some sort (bought
> out a French company, merged with them, were bought by French company, made
> some French components...???).
>
> As it is I bought an SR Laprade seatpost at VeloSwap (appears to be a well
> spent $5) and with some good polishing with Simichrome poly it's turning out
> to be a very pretty item - it has a very nice sheen, nice flutes,
> interesting "head". However the clamp itself seem a bit rough
Laprade was the French company and owned the design and made their own post. SR was the Japanese company and made a version under license to Laprade (SR-Laparade).
The Laprade version was beautiful; polishing and machining was excellent! The SR version was not so beautiful; the machining was not so wonderful and the serrations on the saddle clamp were not nicely machined so that the clamp tended to slip.
Chuck Schmidt SoPas, SoCal
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