Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!CALA-MUZIK!passion.nalgo.co.jp!news.moat.net!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.got.net!news.got.net.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 06:00:24 -0500 From: "Dale Benjamin" Newsgroups: japan.autos.bike,rec.bicycles.tech Subject: What's in a name? Shimano? Deore? Sora? Tiagra? Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 03:39:31 -0700 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1478 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1478 Message-ID: Lines: 14 NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.81.176.103 X-Trace: sv3-HlwNowV48t+yhtmzH3n+seUbdYzp+3Hd0qSDFaZSspWT9UprmLwOPrW1kt9BNViuGkBkh3r3PfwgsnH!sguhzRMsqr44k3QTnasYORzZ5idH2fpo1g9BfJ53slDfYI6Vb2MI+CzoQSbR+9fu X-Complaints-To: abuse@got.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@got.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.31 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org japan.autos.bike:209 I have a Shimano Deore front Deraileur on my bicycle. I wanted to get a Sora for the back, but the authorized dealer here didn't have any with long cages, I got a Tiagra instead. Names. It makes me wonder sometimes. Being an uneducated sort of lout, I don't have a clue. All Japanese stuff, of course. What does "Shimano" mean in Japanese, anyway? Something like "International Harvester", maybe, or just the name of one of the early investors? How about Deore, Sora, Tiagra, what's the translation?