Take one set of Nervex lugs

The Potenza Group has landed:

Good laaawd

Good grief, that's lovely

Wowsers trousers

Sweet baby Jesus

Classy!

Very, very nice

This is the best current project thread for a long time.

u wot m8?

jk .. it is but @Jingle_Jangle NEVER disappoints.

Blingle_Blangle!

So nice.

But also, Campagnolo y u still powertorque?

Your thread is just a project in trolling

I look at it as a metaphorical polished surface/mirror held to the society for high art ..

you are not Duchamp

The groupset looks incredible

Amazing stuff. Can't believe I've missed this thread!

This. Powertorque is my least favourite system. I went to a demo session at Chicken Cycle (distro) and they were saying Citroen own the rights to the Ultra Torque linkage and they have to pay a license fee to use it. Hence Powertorque is their cheapo version.

Strange, I was sure hirth linkages on bicycles were licensed by lightening, I wonder if @mdcc_tester can shine any light on the matter?

Potenza is PT+: doesn't need a puller to get the crank off.

Possibly not true of course. I never checked. The demonstrator guy wasn't a Chicken employee. He thought Shimano was all garbage too. Which its plainly not. Both make nice kit but also both make some rubbish.

Really eager to see this built up, will most definitely look spectacular!

Not sure why Citroen would own it, other than patent trolling there's not many applications they'd useful to them for. Having said that you never know what industrial application pies companies have their hands in.

I was sure hirth linkages on bicycles were licensed by lightening

I'm not aware of any defensible patent on the basic Hirth coupling as it applies to shafts, although there might be some refinements of the surrounding assembly still under protection. AFAIK, the coupling was invented by Albert Hirth, who died in 1935, so the core patent has long since expired. Lightning's patent relates to the integration of the half-axle with the crank arm and in their design the radial alignment and drive torque are handled by dowel pins, not a Hirth coupling. It expired two months ago.
Steve Smilanick had a 1993 patent for using something like a Hirth coupling to join frame tubes for a demountable bicycle, but that too will have expired.