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From: rogerh@bocklin.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: Re: Cannondale frame quality
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Date: Fri, 4-Oct-85 03:12:16 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  4 03:12:16 1985
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Reply-To: rogerh@bocklin.UUCP (Roger Hayes)
Organization: Dept of CS, U of Arizona, Tucson
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About the "race-proven quality" of fancy Euro frames:  a local club got
Team Gitane frames for most of its riders.  Very pretty, nice riding
bikes -- only problem was, the chainstay broke on over half of them before
the end of the season.  Right back at the dropout -- same place on every 
bike.

Not a horror story: the importer cheerfully replaced the frames, nobody
crashed, nobody injured.  But still, fancy isn't always best.

And I still love French bikes.