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- From: curt@mcm.hp.com (Curt Simkins)
- Subject: Re: LX DX XT XTR Confusion
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.155735.25972@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:57:35 GMT
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- In article <ILH.93Jan22101223@chicago.lcs.mit.edu>, ilh@lcs.mit.edu (Lee Hetherington) writes:
- |> 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.......
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- STUFF DELETED......
- |>
- |> 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
-
- Don't feel too bad Lee, I think you just boiled over for a few
- of us..........Well said.
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-
-
- Terry,
-
- It might help if you started using the "Reply" mode instead of the
- "Followup" mode and spare us the redundancy.
-
- Thanks,
- Curt
-