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Old 01-01-08 | 07:19 AM
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I have a fondness for Raleighs, but I have to say that the Team Pro is probably the bike I like the least, among the "famous" ones. It looks like it was designed by marketing people for people who are in the thrall of marketing people. So, sour grapes.

A bicycle in parts is much less satisfying to the soul than one assembled; maybe that's provoking, but it's like looking at pieces of a Calder mobile -- is one in pieces art, or not? I think not.

And +1 on all the others' "presentation" criticisms -- esp. the zip ties and joint in the middle.

I'm no Campagnolo expert, but does the NR seatpost belong with the SR crank and RD? Surely a group like this would have had Binda straps, not Christophe!
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