Originally Posted by
qcpmsame
O.P. ain't reappeared, judging from his General Cycling Forum posts, its hit and run each time. Interesting discussion, and calm compared to the GC threads' results.
Bill
Does it really matter? Is the thread better when we comment on the poster's themselves?
Originally Posted by
hazetguy
I can't say that I've ever drooled over, lusted after, or gone to bed thinking about and dreamed about a Nishiki.
If you were an MTB rider in the early '90s, you might have had a thing for the Alien. That thing was the heat.
But I have been reading a posting to this thread as if "Nishiki" and "Colnago" were stand-ins for "Top end Japanese lugged bike" and "Premium Italian lugged bike". For many folks a Panasonic, RB-1 or high end Miyata is everything they could desire in a lugged road frame, even compared to Italy's best. Plus, Japanese paint was generally better.