ShortLegs Posted April 7, 2008 Posted April 7, 2008 Looking at the weekends news I noticed a picture of the Astana Treks on top of a team car at the Ronde. They're running Dura Ace cranks with a SRAM badge on the side, wonder why
Craven Posted April 7, 2008 Posted April 7, 2008 Wow! That is quite the shocker!Rebranding is obvious. Cover up the Shimano decal and they might have thought that they could fool some clueless people.Why use it though!? Run out of Sram cranks?Or maybe Sram does not offer the crank length that the rider wants, but that is unlikely..Interesting
AndreZA Posted April 7, 2008 Posted April 7, 2008 The same reason you get Shimano cranks and front derailleurs on Sram (not ES-RAM or SHRAM) equipt mountain bikes. I guess they want to finish the race.
Christie Posted April 7, 2008 Posted April 7, 2008 I would guess that the rider uses a crank length that is not available from SRAM yet.
bob_the_builder Posted April 7, 2008 Posted April 7, 2008 The same reason you get Shimano cranks and front derailleurs on Sram (not ES-RAM or SHRAM) equipt mountain bikes. I guess they want to finish the race. Wot?! Like this twat:
GFishy Posted April 7, 2008 Posted April 7, 2008 Look at cyclingnews.com and you will see a lot of rebranding... Zipps with ShimaNO decals etc
AndreZA Posted April 7, 2008 Posted April 7, 2008 The same reason you get Shimano cranks and front derailleurs on Sram (not ES-RAM or SHRAM) equipt mountain bikes. I guess they want to finish the race. Wot?! Like this twat: That is Discovery, they have k@k mechanics. Look how Hincapie ended up on the cobbles with a broken fork.
Craven Posted April 7, 2008 Posted April 7, 2008 Never seen Zipps with shimano decals before, funny what they get up to. Do you have a link?Very funny seeing all of the rebranding. Or the 'brandless' goodies.
bob_the_builder Posted April 7, 2008 Posted April 7, 2008 The same reason you get Shimano cranks and front derailleurs on Sram (not ES-RAM or SHRAM) equipt mountain bikes. I guess they want to finish the race. Wot?! Like this twat: That is Discovery' date=' they have k@k mechanics. Look how Hincapie ended up on the cobbles with a broken fork. [/quote'] Funny, I think the fork is cause he was on a *** trek, and ok, ya, maybe blame the mechanics... Same thing happened to my crank the once going up Ou Kaaps...
ShortLegs Posted April 7, 2008 Author Posted April 7, 2008 Yip, but not many teams with rebadged groupset components.
GFishy Posted April 7, 2008 Posted April 7, 2008 Have a look at cyclingnews.com when it is TdF... Many stickers for many brands...
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