Country: Japan

I shall attempt to mask my total lack of knowledge about Sun-Bow, by remarking on the strange tendency for the Sun to pop up in the names of derailleur brands. Sun-Bow, SunRace, SunRun, SunTour and I think I have even seen a ‘Golden Sun’ - what is it all about? Is this solar fixation common to many products from the Far East - or is it peculiar to derailleurs?

Sun-Bow is vaguely interesting in that they are a rare example of a Japanese manufacturer producing cheap knock-offs of the products of another Japanese manufacturer (SunTour in the case of the derailleur in this collection). I vaguely remember seeing a Sun-Bow on a no-name Japanese bike in about 1977.