Originally Posted by
jtyr71
Oh, but what do you all think about the crankset-- is it original? Driftwood, your crank looks quite different than the catalog. Do you see an make & model markings? It also just looks more mid/later 80s or even 90s to me. Probably later upgrade/swap?
The 1982 catalog says "SR AE-5LA-EL" which looks the same as the "SR SAX-5LA" specified in the 1981 catalog and that came on both my 1981 DFDs.
Per the '82 SR catalog, the AE-5LA is one of the Aerox model line which I suspect was new for 1982. For posterity: SR used AE prefixes for Aerox models, SAX for Super Apex, AX for non-super Apex, SI, SN, and SR for Silstar, RY for Royal, CT for Custom, and the obvious prefixes for the two-letter model cranks.
Now if only someone could tell me what a Sugino Astoron is and where to find one....