Originally Posted by
Salamandrine
Also, "hodge podge" was original spec on these. It's from an era before the groupset brainwashing fully set in.
...yeah. I still don't understand the "matchy-matchy" phenomenon. It's like one day I was all minding my own business, picking out cool stuff for a gofast ride, and then, while I was distracted by that, groupsets were the new black, and everything has to have the same name and number on it from hub to seatpost.
I still find it very strange, from an observer's POV.