In '74 I ordered a frame from Al Eisentraut. I put Crane and DA stuff on it. I wore that stuff out. I put DA AX stuff on it and wore that out. Then I put what, at the time, was almost vintage Campy stuff on it. Campy doesn't wear out.
Along about '05 I got the itch to modernize, so I sent the frame back to Oakland and asked to have its rear triangle taken apart and set to modern dimensions, add water bottle bosses and BB cable guides, repaint it black and put red decals on it. Eisentraut thought a black bike would look like **** with red decals on it and, without asking, put yellow ones on. I think he just didn't have any red ones or was simply satisfying his inner need to be a contrarian. I got it back and put 10S Campy Compact Carbon Crap on it because I liked the alliteration. Been that way for 15 years.
And I'm still as slow as I ever was but the older I get the better I was.
And nowadays we have the demise of the venerable Bowden cable in favor of bikes that shift electrically. What the jump the **** up and down is all that about?