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11-15-07 | 05:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Citoyen du Monde

This is not quite true. Back in the later part of the 80's, De Rosa built some mountain bikes that had English threading. No racing bikes however.

Perhaps a concession to the fact that those mountain bikes would inevitably wind up with Japanese parts on them?

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