Thanks, Eric - I'm not lobbying or anything similar. But I agree with you. Back in ??? all of us used parts from the same 3-4 vendors PERIOD. There was virtually no selection. There was a choice or three and that was it. Now, all of those companies have long since vaporized and we all still have but 3-4 vendors, only they (we) make contemporary shapes and sizes just as the Prugnats, Vagners, Guinticiclos, and others did when freewheels had 5 cogs atmo. There are no companies left from that era. Even the few that made it out of the 1970s eventually sourced the goods from Asia.