>I gotta tell ya that IMHO not admitting to design flaws has everything to do
> with money (the manufacturer's) and absolutely zip to do with ego. Especially
> in today's "litigious environment," manufacturers are loathe to admit to
>anything
> remotely sounding like a design flaw.
I don't think this is really correct since Campagnolo is an Italian company and Italian law is really lax and suing an Italian company from America is almost impossible. This can be seen by Italy by being the worlds number one producer of bootlegged music. The same people shutting down Napster haven't been able to do a thing about Italy for 20 years. Also America is one of the FEW countries that has moved from competeing with the Smiths to suing them. Campy would be more like likley to be sued if they didn't say anything about it since they did "know" it.
I don't want to get into a huge legal argument about this since it's totally off-topic, sorry Dale. Looking at all the recalls that have happened over time you can see that people didn't get sued-- at least in the bike industry-- very much over recalls. They get sued because they don't fix a problem. Go to your local LBS and look through old issues of Bicycle Retailer and Industry News or Bicycle Business Journal and you'll see the topic talked about in almost ever issue for the last many, many years.
More on topic, does anyone out there collect broken parts? I have a Mavic right arm if you're interested.
enjoy, Brandon"monkeyman"Ives
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