Sakae Ringyo is the full name of the company that makes/markets SR brand cranks, bbs, handlebars, stems, etc (in the on-topic era), later merged with SunTour and making off-topic stuff today.
I don't think they were related to any company that made furniture. I also don't think they made or sold frames in the on-topic era, though I don't know that for a fact. Phil Brown might know, though. They did offer aluminum bonded off-topic frames in the late '80s, a spillover from the bonding work they did on even more off-topic cheapo ATB suspension forks.
As Ken pointed out, there are a bunch of "xxxxx Ringyo" corporate names in the Japanese bike biz, SR and Joto Ringyo being the two that come quickest to mind.
Cheers,
Paul Brodek Hillsdale, NJ
On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 16:21:22 -0800, Dennis Young
<mail@woodworkingboy.com> wrote:
>A somewhat strange name for a bike. SAKAE RINGYO would normally be
>interpreted as the Sakae company that manufactures and/ or sells wooden
>products (furniture, housing, palettes, etc.). So it may not carry water,
>but it probably floats.
>
>Dennis Young
>Hotaka, Japan
>
>> Subject: [CR]RE: SAKAE RINGYO was SR Semi Pro
>>
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>> The seller of the SR curently on ebay has it listed as Sakae Ringyo. Does that
>> carry water? The Item number is 1585349579
>> Mark, only 3 days 'til we start skiing, Poore
>> Slatyfork, WV
Paul C. Brodek
Hillsdale, N.J. U.S.A.
E-mail: pcb@skyweb.net