Say it ain't so: The Assploded Bike Parts Picture Thread.

yep a thin layer of branding by Merry Sales

Yokozuna started as Japanese brake housing but is now generic chinese catalog clones of Tektro products

TANGE tubing labels are actually a Maxway competitor in Taiwan that bought the defunct brand

Tanaka is their clones of Honjo, Wald, King Cage

IRD is kinda their Salsa in that it had been a company before, but now is their knockoffs of Paul and Sugino with no relation to the original better brake designs

Kasai Dynacoil is also theirs, buying from the machine shop vendor that fucked over Shutter Precision years ago to kick off that quality crisis and made SP start over

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