as much as i like and appreciate mavic equipment, your mavic history and assesment is full of inaccuracies, hyberbole and outright fantasy.
just for example, you claim mavic as being the innovator of the sealed bearing btm bkt. just off the top of my head, O.M.A.S., edco and phil wood predate mavic's unit by years. i'm sure that others recall many more.
your characterisation of mavic setting the definition of what constitutes a modern road group is just bizarre,even laughable. to even refer to mavic ssc as a complete group is open to interpretation as it was cobbled together using outsourced brakesets for years, first with several generations of rebadged modolo and later rebadged dia-compe , with the original crankset a rebadged stronglight 106 and shift levers borrowed from simplex,etc.
Last edited by caterham; 10-20-09 at 01:10 PM.