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- From: flip@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Phillip D. Russell)
- Subject: Re: LX DX XT XTR Confusion
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- References: <1jnd7fINNkan@fido.asd.sgi.com> <C18GsM.E8B@cs.uiuc.edu> <ILH.93Jan22101223@chicago.lcs.mit.edu>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 06:23:40 GMT
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- In article <ILH.93Jan22101223@chicago.lcs.mit.edu> ilh@lcs.mit.edu writes:
- >
- >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.
- >
-
- I pissed that I can't find the cheap Exage components anymore. I made
- the mistake of forking out the money for XT hubs just to have a
- different part of the hub fail each winter. The original Exage hubs
- are still in perfect condition and working great after fours years
- of all-weather commuting.
-
- Flip
-
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