Could we generalize about model years in the bike world? Like cars, perhaps, sorta starts in September for the year that will start the following January?
Whatever way it's been or not, has it more or less always been this way and is it still?
I ask this because, so far as I can tell, a bike bought in December of 1977 had 1978 Campy Super Record components on it, and that seems to be the way things work even now, at least to my fuzzy, not-in-the-bike-biz mind. Another bike I own built in 1981 had 1982 components on it.
Corrections, amplifications, pontifications, etc., welcomed.
-S-