Did they have a just a warehouse, or were they an incorporated company? My information comes from industry stuff from '89. I remember a press release from around that time about the creation of Campys US branch. I may be wrong, but you don't seem to have the answers either. Where's your information from?
Dale and other shop owners who've been working in the bicycle industry much longer that I should have better information. I'm more than willing to be proven wrong.
The Campagnolo name I have seen as Campi, but even this has no corelation to the English or Italian language. I've seen Campag, which I can understand since it's just a shortening of a name. I think Campy came from Campi and Campi was someone mispronouncing Campagnolo.
enjyo, Brandon"monkeyman"Ives
"Nobody can do everything, but if everybody did something everything would get done." Gil Scott-Heron
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, gregparker1 wrote:
> Who told you that?
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> Campagnolo USA has been around much longer than ten years as far as I know....
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> Anyone know definitively?
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> I've seen Campagnolo referred to as Campi, but us Amurricans made it Campy I think.
> "Campag" is fairly common in the UK....
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> Greg Parker
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> I think the incorporation of Campy in the US was a late 80's thing
> which is outside of the time period we're speaking about.
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> Totally on topic question, why did Campagnolo become Campy? Campy to me is
> John Waters films, but somehow the proper name was shortened and a
> "Y" added, why? There isn't any precident in the Italian language that I
> know of.
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> enjoy,
> Brandon"monkeyman"Ives
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> "Nobody can do everything, but if everybody did something everything would
> get done." Gil Scott-Heron