Originally Posted by
T-Mar
I'm not saying that I disapprove of the practice. I n fact, ido consider some of it as art. What grates me are certain forum members who are extremely verbal when you otherwise alter a Campagnolo component or group by substituting a non-OEM part, yet they consider drillium OK.
I think that is not a very paradoxal approach, because what we are trying to do here, consciously or unconsciously, is to restore or recreate create the bikes of a (perceived) bike culture from several decades ago. In the case of the NR era, that included drillium, but not Shimano jockey wheels from years later.
If you're building up a bike purely for the pleasure of riding it (on which NR or any other campagnolo group has a good a place as any - it was never designed for the museum) the entire point is moot. But that is just the two types of bike and two types of owners on this forum: riders and collectors.