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- From: les@SAIL.Stanford.edu (Les Earnest)
- Subject: Re: The Future of the Bike
- In-Reply-To: ovr@lk-hp-4.hut.fi's message of 24 Jan 1993 13:47:41 GMT
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 00:59:40 GMT
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- Otto-Ville Ronkainen writes:
- How about reserving the word 'derailleur' for French (or European)
- derailleurs? Such feats of mechanical engineering as the Shitmano
- Positron could be called 'derailures', whereas your average
- Japanese derailleur would be called simply a 'derailer'.
-
- Be careful about making suggestions like this -- you are likely to
- anger the same conservatives who were offended by my suggestion in
- r.b.racing that the abbreviation of "International Cycling Union"
- should be ICU instead of the traditional UCI.
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