Originally Posted by zouch

not clear who your question here is targeted at since you didn't quote anyone, but i don't believe SpecialEd "owned" Saturne; i think it was just a name they used for their rims, and then changed it because someone else using the name (or one close to it) objected in a legal way.
(maybe someone else here who can look at their Saturne rims and see if there is still an Araya logo stamped in somewhere, or some other rim mfr.)

personally, i don't think the SC frame was any different than the standard Stumpy of its days; it was just tarted up with some cute components and a different paint color. as i mentioned, i ended up running much wider tires on mine than what it came with originally.

i bought mine as part of a shop employee deal that Spclzd did to promote the Stumpys in those early years; we got them for less than the shop paid wholesale for the standard version. i suspect that's how most of them were sold, with the idea that when Joe Potential Customer came in looking at bikes and asked what i rode, i'd point to the Special Edition at the top of the line and say "one of those".