Maybe it's not something that just started happening, but Sugino is serious.
But before that.
The Mighty Tour crankset from about 30 years ago that's on my lightweight bike,
the reason I'm using this is "because it's light."
It's definitely lighter than 7900 Dura-Ace or current Super Record.
It's lighter than Stronglight's pulsion, and lighter than Rotor's 3D as well.
Admittedly it loses to THM's Klavikula,
but it's probably about the next lightest thing out there.
There's a secret to this—the crankset itself is light, but because I can make the BB (bottom bracket) that matches this crankset incredibly light,
when you consider the crankset including the BB,
it comes out lighter than most other cranksets.
This frame is 1068g, and the whole bike is 4820g, but
since I can't just transplant this bike's crankset and fork onto a BB30 or oversized headtube frame,
even if I swapped this bike's parts onto a frame that was, say, 300g lighter,
it wouldn't result in a 4520g bike.
There's a crankset called the Aero Mighty.
Beautiful . . .
When something's this beautiful,
you just end up collecting them.
（↑It's fine. I'm not asking for your agreement）
The Super Mighty and Schuperbe are cranksets
that never get old to look at.
The real highlight is around the tips of the right crank's 5 arms though.
The detail is in the finish of the edges of the cutouts, which have a slightly different appearance from the grained surface texture.
The track crankset Mighty is nice too.
The tips of the 5 arms are indented like Campagnolo's Super Record,
but they have a slightly stockier curve
compared to Super Record.
It's practically the kind of thing to win 2 gold medals at the Munich Olympics (1972), like. ←Makes no sense
↑This is a track crankset Super Mighty, but
the outer side of the 5 arm tips has the pedestal shape for 5 pins,
and given the diagonal cut, the design is completely specialized
just for mounting chainrings on the inside of the 5 arms.
It's way too cool.
What's in this gear bag is a chainring
from the PCD 130 era of Suntour Schuperbe Pro,
and apparently the gold version is a rare find.
So, there you have it—Sugino talk where I doubt I'll get any agreement or sympathy whatsoever.
Now for the main topic.
Sugino's PE 110S chainring now comes with an outer 42T.
This one is black, but they're putting out plenty of color options.
This 42T, as mentioned, is an outer ring.
If you look at the 5 pin pedestals, it's definitely an outer gear.
What's amazing is that because the 42T is so small,
there's no cutout window in the chainring, so they've done the bold machining
of putting the shift pin right there.
It's like they're discarding the name to get the substance, or putting performance before aesthetics.
（Though to be honest, I don't think these pins look particularly ugly. But
as I mentioned before, I'm biased toward Sugino—my eyes are clouded—
so maybe I just don't notice.）
The machining on the shift "path" is pretty great too!
For details on the shift "path," check out my old post (→here).
There are 4 of them. I've seen the backs of outer gears from all sorts of makers,
but for non-component manufacturers, this is outstanding work.
But before that.
The Mighty Tour crankset from about 30 years ago that's on my lightweight bike,
the reason I'm using this is "because it's light."
It's definitely lighter than 7900 Dura-Ace or current Super Record.
It's lighter than Stronglight's pulsion, and lighter than Rotor's 3D as well.
Admittedly it loses to THM's Klavikula,
but it's probably about the next lightest thing out there.
There's a secret to this—the crankset itself is light, but because I can make the BB (bottom bracket) that matches this crankset incredibly light,
when you consider the crankset including the BB,
it comes out lighter than most other cranksets.
This frame is 1068g, and the whole bike is 4820g, but
since I can't just transplant this bike's crankset and fork onto a BB30 or oversized headtube frame,
even if I swapped this bike's parts onto a frame that was, say, 300g lighter,
it wouldn't result in a 4520g bike.
There's a crankset called the Aero Mighty.
Beautiful . . .
When something's this beautiful,
you just end up collecting them.
（↑It's fine. I'm not asking for your agreement）
The Super Mighty and Schuperbe are cranksets
that never get old to look at.
The real highlight is around the tips of the right crank's 5 arms though.
The detail is in the finish of the edges of the cutouts, which have a slightly different appearance from the grained surface texture.
The track crankset Mighty is nice too.
The tips of the 5 arms are indented like Campagnolo's Super Record,
but they have a slightly stockier curve
compared to Super Record.
It's practically the kind of thing to win 2 gold medals at the Munich Olympics (1972), like. ←Makes no sense
↑This is a track crankset Super Mighty, but
the outer side of the 5 arm tips has the pedestal shape for 5 pins,
and given the diagonal cut, the design is completely specialized
just for mounting chainrings on the inside of the 5 arms.
It's way too cool.
What's in this gear bag is a chainring
from the PCD 130 era of Suntour Schuperbe Pro,
and apparently the gold version is a rare find.
So, there you have it—Sugino talk where I doubt I'll get any agreement or sympathy whatsoever.
Now for the main topic.
Sugino's PE 110S chainring now comes with an outer 42T.
This one is black, but they're putting out plenty of color options.
This 42T, as mentioned, is an outer ring.
If you look at the 5 pin pedestals, it's definitely an outer gear.
What's amazing is that because the 42T is so small,
there's no cutout window in the chainring, so they've done the bold machining
of putting the shift pin right there.
It's like they're discarding the name to get the substance, or putting performance before aesthetics.
（Though to be honest, I don't think these pins look particularly ugly. But
as I mentioned before, I'm biased toward Sugino—my eyes are clouded—
so maybe I just don't notice.）
The machining on the shift "path" is pretty great too!
For details on the shift "path," check out my old post (→here).
There are 4 of them. I've seen the backs of outer gears from all sorts of makers,
but for non-component manufacturers, this is outstanding work.