Originally Posted by
bikerosity57
You see what you gotta do is this: hacksaw off the deraileur tang first and formost. If your bike has fancy lug work, use a dremel tool and cut out all the lug points so it looks like any other bike. Then, throw away all the Campagnolo components, don't sell 'em or give them away, just toss 'em. Or better yet smash them with a big hammer, like a maul. You see this way something truelly special, and hard to come by can be totally marginalized, and ruined. And, best of all, you'll have something that you won't be able to sell, or pass down to future generations. It's the american way, right? Take something really special, and well made (like the Earth) and ruin it.
I'm definitely against the destructiveness that Bikerosity is describing, but the OP didn't suggest he would do any such things. Many of us are unfairly stereotyping him as a careless twit, but worse, stereotyping ourselves as biased, prejudiced curmudgeons who can't get beyond our own points of view. We need to give the OP the simple human respect of just listening to the question that was actually verbalized and giving him the answer.
If we don't, we deserve whatever might be said about us over at "those other" forums.
Road Fan