Originally Posted by
63rickert
Can't quite be sure I've scanned every post, looks like no one has mentioned American Classic. The hubs and seatpost were extremely popular in the 80s. Good quality, good price, fast return on order of any oddball drilling or sizing. Plenty of Paramounts would have had them. Al Kingsbury.
I just bought one!
Possibly the lightest 25.0 post you can get. Apparently the bolts used to break if they were silver-colored. Mine has black bolts, so I should be good...
Grip Shift made shifters right here in Chicago. They'd make anything. You want indexing with an ultra seven and 1020/a, sure, we can do that. While still locally made at least some triathletes bought them so it was a product, not just a prototype. The makers tried and tried and tried to get any of the local racers to use them. So far as I know they never got a bite. Then MTB came along and those guys with the strange orphan product were suddenly SRAM.
Did Grip Shift stuff from back when it was U.S.-made work any better than the stuff I find on all the midrange '90s and '00s MTBs? I feel like I'm always replacing these on friends' rigs because some piddly plastic tab has broken off or a tiny spring has bitten the dust.