***warning - strong opinion follows***
If you want to see "rough", grab a Cycling Plus from last fall - the issue with the pictorial on Hero Bicycle Company in India.
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<kohl57@starpower.net> writes:
Dare I suggest that we can add bicycles to sausages and laws when it's
best
not to look at how they are made?
There are some wonderful stories of Royals visiting cycle works to see
"precision British craftsmanship" only to have their delicate eardrums
thumped by beating the bejesus out of red-hot metal with sledges and
their
fine clothes showered with sparks and bits. It's just best not to look.
Perhaps this is why British bicycles are renown for their finish... beat
the metal senseless, just paint it pretty. And of course, it all worked
in
the end... best darn bikes in the world. They just weren't made by little
elves in some pristine, perfect world.
Peter Kohler
Washington DC USA