[CR]In praise of shimano ...

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From: Donald Gillies <gillies@cs.ubc.ca>
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 17:55:25 -0700 (PDT)
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]In praise of shimano ...

You have to hand it to Shimano. Imagine its 1973 and you want your derailleur on the best bike that Schwinn makes, and they say, "sure, just print some that say 'LeTour'" and we'll do it !!! Meanwhile, all the other Campy parts are sitting on the same bike labeled "Campy". Your total yearly production run of "LeTour" parts would be maybe 700 parts annually. I bet there was a great deal of hand wringing in japan over this - and they went the last mile ...

- Don Gillies (P-15 owner)
San Diego, CA