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Bikes: Stewart S&S coupled sport tourer, Stewart Sunday light, Stewart Commuting, Stewart Touring, Co Motion Tandem, Stewart 3-Spd, Stewart Track, Fuji Finest, Mongoose Tomac ATB, GT Bravado ATB, JCP Folder, Stewart 650B ATB
For all the engineering props that the media likes to place on Shimano the company is a very marketing driven one. I would suspect that the marketing side has the upper hand when decisions are being made about spending millions to bring a new design to a profitable level. Shimano isn't the first bike company to suffer with bonded design failures. Andy
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