In a message dated 5/11/2004 5:20:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time, themaaslands@comcast.net writes:
<< Effectively, no component sponsorship deal is ever good enough to overcome the penalty imposed by inadequate components. >>
I will have to agree. That reminds me of the refusal of Lance & his boys to use the Trek made Rolf & Bontrager wheels. They instead chose Mavic until the Trek wheel's reliability factor improved to an acceptable level. (Mavic goes way back into the on-topic era so I hope the list master will not give me the boot for drifting off topic)
Dale Brown
Greensboro, NC