Originally Posted by
genejockey
My bike circle is largely C&V riders - mostly folks like me with modern bikes we do most of our riding on, but an interest in C&V sufficient to have >1 old bike to bring to the monthly ride. I'm the only Shimano fanboy of the group. Everyone else seems to be Campy fans. I like Shimano because prior to 2000, they were the scrappy newcomer, pushing the envelope, trying new things -
a lot of which didn't catch on. That, and it seems like everybody and his dog who's into C&V goes for Campy.
BUT
afaik, none of them have Campy on their modern bikes.
A Shimano-graveyard-centered Eroica-like C&V ride would be something to see. Off the top of my head, there'd be Pitch 10, Direction 6, Rapid Rise, DynaDrive, and Biopace bikes, some with Flight Deck. Maybe the various generations of Front-Freewheeling Systems and Positron, too.
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