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an absolute design icon
And yet a failure on so many levels. By 1996, it was already obvious that disc brakes were the future, the parallelogram brakes were a complex solution in search of a problem, and first generation Octalink was wrong even for Octalink, and, as it turns out, just completely wrong for a BB.
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Shimano launched them in 1996 with the M950 group
Which is an absolute design icon IMO, Id love it if they brought that finish back.