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.............................. Shimano Deore
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Shimano, Inc. (OTCBB: SHMDF, FWB: SHM) is a Japanese multinational manufacturer of cycling components, fishing tackle, and snowboarding equipment. In 2005, the company had net sales of US$1.4 billion. Bicycle components provided 75 % of its sales income. Fishing tackle produced 23 % of the company's sales income, while other products—including snowboarding equipment and other forged parts—produced about 2 % of its sales income. Shimano produced golf supplies until 2005, when they abandoned the enterprise as unprofitable.
Headquartered in Sakai, Japan, the company has 32 consolidated subsidiaries and 11 unconsolidated subsidiaries. Its primary manufacturing plants are in Kunshan, Malaysia, and Singapore, while its sales are in Europe (41 % of total sales) and North America (17 %). Shimano is publicly traded and has 102.8 million shares of common stock outstanding.
Shimano have developed many new items, some successful and others not. Nexus - Shimano's family of internally geared hubs. Available in 7- and 8-speed with or without a coaster brake. Utilizing STI the Nexus hubs are comparable in range to a full 16-20 speed system. Dyna Drive - a pedal system with no pedal axle and with the bearings located in the part of the pedal which screws into the crank. This required an oversized hole in the crank 25mm (1" diameter) to accept the Dyna Drive pedals. The theory behind this was to allow the foot to be lower than the pedal axle for better biomechanics. This system did not catch on, one reason being that the pedal bearings wore out quickly.
Biopace - Biopace chainrings were not circular but slightly elliptical and were developed in the late 1980s, but like Dyna Drive did not catch on. Freehub - Shimano introduced a combined rear hub and freewheel in the late 1970s which they named "freehub". But it didn't catch on, as it was incompatible with the then standard separate hub and screw-on freewheel. When a larger number of rear sprockets came to be used, the freehub concept was re-introduced, and is now the dominant rear hub type.
Metric chain - Shimano designed chains with a 10mm pitch instead of the conventional half inch pitch as well as sprockets and chainrings for use with this metric chain. This did not catch on. For a time 10mm pitch chains, sprockets, and chainrings, were used for motor-paced racing, to reduce the size and weight of the transmission system.
Hyperglide - Specially formed rear cogs that allow upshifting under load. STI (the marketing name for the integration of shifting into the brake levers) for road bikes, enabling the rider to shift without taking the hands off the brake levers. This made it possible to shift during uphill passages that require getting out of the saddle, and added general convenience for the rider.
SLR ("Shimano Linear Response") - Integration of a return spring into the brake lever, pushing the brake cable back when the lever is released. The idea behind this was that the return spring in the actual brake could be designed to be weaker, thus giving an overall feeling of easier operation.
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