disappearing groupsets!
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Hotwheels.
Old School Grand Master
Various Campy groupsets are available, although mostly separately so it's a bit of an arse trying to get one together in its entirety, and don't even get me started with Mavic.
vtwinvince
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I've always thought Sante stuff was pretty cool, and scarce.
Splatter Paint
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They’ve all (mostly) gone because we didn’t aspire to or value them!
Case in point, when I started with RetroBIKE I built my BITD nostalgia bike - a 1990 Kona Fire Mountain, with full XT! 300LX, the original fitment is heavy, plasticky and clunky to use - the cantis are crap too.
As I plan to return to factory spec at some point, I have kept the best bits of 300LX I can find so I have a nice groupset. I’m only doing it to keep it ‘factory’, it is lighter, better shifting and better stopping with XT. Oh and XT takes a nice polish.
SP
P.S. I have some 400LX / 500LX bits too as they’re worth ‘owt but too nice to throw away.
They’ve all (mostly) gone because we didn’t aspire to or value them!
Case in point, when I started with RetroBIKE I built my BITD nostalgia bike - a 1990 Kona Fire Mountain, with full XT! 300LX, the original fitment is heavy, plasticky and clunky to use - the cantis are crap too.
As I plan to return to factory spec at some point, I have kept the best bits of 300LX I can find so I have a nice groupset. I’m only doing it to keep it ‘factory’, it is lighter, better shifting and better stopping with XT. Oh and XT takes a nice polish.
SP
P.S. I have some 400LX / 500LX bits too as they’re worth ‘owt but too nice to throw away.
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