Jerome & Elizabeth Moos wrote:
> There wasn't anything not to like about the SLJ's. One wonders
> whether if Simplex had abandoned the ill-fated experiment with
> plastic five years earlier if perhpas they might have survived. I
> still think the plastic Criterium RD was better than Campy NR, but
> the public image was never favorable, at least not in America.
I think the reason they got a bad reputation is that you had to keep them clean if you wanted them to stay working well. Once grit got into those plastic pieces, everything became sloppy and poor performing. Campy OTOH, kept its comparatively mediocre performance consistently for the lifetime of the piece.
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-John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA