Originally Posted by alanbikehouston

Well, the price depends upon what YOU think is a Campy Record group. Back when the bike industry was dominated by sellers with a minimal sense of honesty, and integrity, someone advertising a bike with a "Campy Record Group" was talking about a group that included the shifters, brake levers, front and rear changers, the headset, the bottom bracket, the crank, the chain rings, the freewheel, the cogset, the chain, the seatpost, and both the front and rear hubs.

Today, the bike industry is infested with low-life, low-ball discounters who assume the average customer is dim-witted. So, they will take a generic communist-Chinese frame, gether up a pile of odds and sods Asian close-out components that are a year or two old, slip in a set of Campy shifters and changers and advertise that mess as a "2007 Bottacinelli Carbon frame Campy Record Bike".

How do they get away with selling that pile of cr@p as a "Campy Record" bike? Well, they assume that their buyers are morons...and "moron" would be a compliment for anyone dumb enough to buy such a bike.

So, a REAL Campy Record group is gonna cost some real money. Quality costs more than junk, and that is a hard concept to sell in our Wal-Mart world.