GPVB1@cs.com wrote:
>
> Tom:
>
> Of course the current Campy stuff is no better than Shimano's bits - it's all
> the same designer-labeled, marketing-driven crap! (Sorry, couldn't resist
> that).
>
> You've hit on the core nucleus of the Record / Nuovo/Super Record "mystique"
> - once the old man died (actually a little before), Valentino chose to go
> down-market and compete directly with Shimano - something Tullio never would
> have done (and didn't, thank goodness)! (I'm not implying that Campy would or
> would not have survived without that change in strategy - so no flaming
> e-mails please, folks).
>
> Chant it with me: It's just like Ferrari, it's just like Ferrari, it's just
> like Ferrari....
>
> Try rebuilding a Shimano rear derailleur!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Greg Parker
> A2 MI USA
Yup, that's what is driving this list.
Trying to find that old magic we remember from years past; here comes that word again... mojo... there, I said it!
"Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered... gone with the wind..."
or, on the other hand
"...fishing the past, from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth." --Kurt Vonnegut
Chuck Schmidt SoPas, SoCal
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