And you base this on what?
Sugino chainsets are used by the all conquering British Cycling track squad as well as quite a few other pro track riders. Their chainrings are amazing and the superlap bottom brackets are near mythically good. I can't see British Cycling cobbling on a low rent chainset onto a bike that costs about $35,000 per rider. Their road cranksets feature forged crank arms which are pretty darned strong - I'd bet that if you'd pulled that stunt with the crank extractor on a campagnolo square taper crank you'd have ripped the threads out pretty early on.
Your observations are based upon you seeing some lower budget bikes with Sugino cranks?
I will refer you to post #17 where I clarified that when I said Sugino was bottom of the barrel that I was meaning that it wasn't one of the "big three" and not that I thought Sugino was ****. In fact, the large chainring on my Trek is a Sugino. I don't have a problem with Sugino cranksets at all.
