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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.

  • pretty things dont have to work well, look at C-Record, people will buy them just because.

    Fair point.

  • But are they pretty if they don't work well?
    I would argue that the worst things are the ones that are style over function.

    EDIT: Except for carbon canti brakes. Rules don't apply there!

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