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| verktyg |
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| Peter S. Horn wrote: |
I felt that the Victory gruppo was a fine one. Shifting (non-indexed) was as sure as tomorrow's sunrise. Please notice, however; I'm steering clear (for now) of the Campag./Simplex/Shimano debate! I did not know that Victory was intended to replace Nuovo Record until so advised by Chas. The Victory gruppo was probaby at least one half pound heavier than C-Record, you do, after all, get what you pay for!
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Victory was positioned to replace Nuovo Record and C-Record, Super Record so that would account for the weight difference. I don't know what the weight difference is between C-Record and SR? Anyway, the plan never caught on.
I happen to like the design of the Victory and Triomphe cranks. After looking at 25+ years of Campy cranks and look alike knockoffs the geometric shapes of these chainrings are a pleasant change. In addition, you could get down to a 35 tooth small chainring.
I rode 49/45 1/2 step gears from 1975 until recently. Now I have "compact" gearing on most of my bikes - 50/36 or 38T chainrings. Here in the Bay Area I'm too old to push 50" gears up the hills. 
The Campy Syncho shifters were terrible. I have a 1988 Bianchi that I picked up off of eBay last summer. It came with a complete Victory gruppo and probably had less than 50 miles on it.
I couldn't get the Synchro shifter to work in either index or friction mode so I got a set of NOS Synchro II shifters on eBay. They wouldn't index properly either even with all of the recommended components. I ended up pulling the guts out of the right side shift lever and converting it to permanent friction shifting.
BTW, make mine a Marzen from Hubsch Sudwerk Privatbrauerei 
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| Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 1:19 pm |
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| Peter S. Horn |
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Stephan,
Re the query on the Inter frame; nothing in particular. I just thought that you might decide, at some point, to build it up and put it on the road.
Bienvenue,
Peter H.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 8:58 pm |
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| verktyg |
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Daniel,
Your avatar is really fascinating. Who's picture is that?
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| Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 11:43 pm |
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| Gtane |
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| verktyg wrote: |
Tim,
In the US, inventory is taxed as profit so businesses that are on a January 1 through December 31 tax year usually have inventory reduction sales every year at the end of December.
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Thanks Chas for the detail.
This (above) is an interesting point that I had not appreciated. The management of stock must therefore be quite a skill, particularly where stock is not on consignment.
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| Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 7:04 am |
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| lofter |
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| i dont see a number peg . |
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| Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 7:12 am |
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| dangit |
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Wow, quite a lot of information to absorb. Thanks for all the details.
| verktyg wrote: |
Daniel,
Your avatar is really fascinating. Who's picture is that?
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The image is a cropped version of a photo by Jason Levesque and illustrator and photographer. Some of his photos are probably NSFW so I'd suggest searching for his stuff via google or flickr. 
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| I dont see a number peg. |
You're right, there is no number peg. |
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| Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 4:56 am |
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| sandranian |
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| Daniel: Are you German or American or both? For a German, your English is perfect. Like I said earlier, I have a bunch of relatives in Hessen...right near where you live...have been to Kassel a bunch. Just curious. |
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| Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 6:16 am |
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| dangit |
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| sandranian wrote: |
| Daniel: Are you German or American or both? For a German, your English is perfect. Like I said earlier, I have a bunch of relatives in Hessen...right near where you live...have been to Kassel a bunch. Just curious. |
I'm German but I've had quite a lot of exposure to English. I stayed in Lebanon, IN for a year visiting the local high school. I am actually not from Hessen but from Schleswig-Holstein. I moved to Kassel because of the university. It is nice in this part of Germany but I miss the sea. |
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| Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 8:13 am |
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| sandranian |
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| My brother married a Berlinerin. She had spent time as an exchange student in the US, and he met her while he was living for a year in Berlin. They live in the US now, and speak only German with their kids. All of us live in Southern California, right near the ocean, so I understand what you mean! |
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