When I first fell in love with road cycling, I started to hear about the mythic componentry coming from Italy that truly made a good bike great. As I started to see images in the magazines of Euro Pro races, I not only noticed the weird looking shifters (compared to what came spec’d on my bike) but started to stare in lust. The shape was sexy and I couldn’t help wishing my bike got me as turned on. I wanted to feel up those shifters and run my hands along those smooth curvy brake calipers and derailleurs from those better bikes
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