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- From: ilh@lcs.mit.edu (Lee Hetherington)
- Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
- Subject: Re: LX DX XT XTR Confusion
- Date: 22 Jan 93 10:12:23
- Organization: MIT/LCS Spoken Language Systems
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- In-reply-to: tthiel@cs.uiuc.edu's message of Fri, 22 Jan 1993 02:12:22 GMT
-
- In article <C18GsM.E8B@cs.uiuc.edu>
- tthiel@cs.uiuc.edu (Terry Thiel) writes:
- You forgot to mention that LX is not as well finished or durable as DX or XT
- either. Of course if you have an LX bike then thats a strong incentive to
- defend it...
- -Terry
-
- Terry: ENOUGH! ENOUGH! ENOUGH! ENOUGH! ENOUGH! ENOUGH! ENOUGH! ENOUGH!
-
- I'm really getting tired of your "DX is better than LX because its not
- painted and because that's what Bridgestone puts on my bicycle"
- attitude. The other day you stated how '92 LX sucks (unqualified).
- I'm sorry, but I have '92 LX on my bicycle because that's all I could
- afford and I bought it in '92. I think its ridiculuous that you're
- running around bashing the equipment of others, and, quite frankly,
- I'm offended. Maybe many of us can't afford better than LX. Maybe
- you think the price difference between DX and LX is worth it. Maybe
- others think the price difference between XTR and XT and DX is worth
- it. Maybe we don't have as much money as you. Maybe we have more
- money than you. Maybe...
-
- Terry, in case you haven't noticed, because you own a Bridgestone,
- you're always the first to defend/worship them. (And, because you own
- DX, it has the ultimate price/performance tradeoff.) You'll be happy
- to know that my wife bought a Bridgestone this fall. But, alas, it
- only has an Exage drivetrain. According to you, Bridgestone doesn't
- put junk on their bicycles. According to you LX sucks. If
-
- Exage < LX <<<<<<< DX
-
- than what in the world is Bridgestone doing even messing with anything
- less than DX.
-
- Sorry, Terry and the rest of you, but I just boiled over. Wow, I feel
- a lot better know.
- --
-
- Lee Hetherington
- ilh@lcs.mit.edu
-