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Old 01-03-24, 03:07 AM
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Bike Gremlin
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I work in a relatively poor country (not as "bad" as some parts of Africa and Asia, but poor compared to most of Europe).
Tourney is considered to be "decent" compared to "no-name" stuff.
It's an improvement ("upgrade") compared to the lowest quality stuff I've worked with.

As far as "hate" goes, I don't hate, but think that many of the heavily-marketed "inventions" are unreasonable.
If your goal is to just enjoy cycling - what you see and experience.

If I had to pick favourites, it would be the internally routed stuff (rims with no nipple access on the outside, and internally routed cables and housing, some electric bike wiring routing designs etc.).
Especially if your goal is to get folks back on the road, not make money, it's a complete nonsense and waste of time - turning a 15-minute job into hour(s) sometimes.

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