Thread: Why the hate for Shimano 600 Arabesque?
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Old 09-04-15 | 10:28 PM
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Shimano Arabesque scroll-i-ques looked TACKY and when you looked at the stuff up close it looked CHEAP!

Aesthetically speaking, the Japanese love Kitch. They have the wondrous ability to take a classic design and evolve it into total dreck, e.g. to my tastes, the first generation DuraAce gruppo with the side pull brakes were a classic design especially in black (except for the brake levers and the faux DuraAce center pull brakes).

The beautiful look and... feel of the DuraAce down tube levers...




vs. this DRECK:





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