Originally Posted by noglider

It's funny that we're having this discussion. When dinosaurs roamed the earth and I was in the bike business, Campagnolo was the highest regarded stuff, and rightly so in nearly every case. Even our boss trained us with a response, in case anyone asked us if something, e.g. DuraAce was as good as Campy. He said we should ask them if they're out of their farking mind.

But old man Campagnolo died, and the son knew he had to get with the times, so he diversified the line, and it wasn't made in the old handmade tradition, and it wasn't backward compatible, and so on.