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Originally Posted by Scooper
Some high end bikes were originally delivered with, for example, "mostly Campy Record" because for whatever reason a particular Campy component wasn't suitable for that particular model bike.

A case in point is the early seventies P15-9 Paramount; it had a Campy Nouvo Record 36-49-54T triple crank and a 14-31T wide gear range freewheel, but the only suitable Campy RD was the crappy Gran Tourismo, so Schwinn used a long cage Shimano Crane (early pre Dura-Ace) RD rebranded as a Schwinn-Approved GT-300 Le Tour. Also, since the P15-9 was designed to accommodate fenders, the then new Campy side-pull Record brakes couldn't provide enough clearance for fenders, so Schwinn used Weinmann center-pulls.

If I had one of these bikes for sale should I spell out the individual components, say "as originally equipped", or say "mostly Campy Record/Nouvo Record"?
I'd probably word it as:

"Original components, mostly Campagnolo Record".
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