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Very hard to downsize a 100 year old company with complex physical assets and long established workforce. I'm sure Raleigh tried - and in turn all those British brands they consumed along the way😪

Rapha might buy it to do limited edition merino waistcoats

Wise managers rushing into a booming marketplace😂

Bring back the Freewheel! they shout😉 (Trouble is, what standard would you work to?)

Judging by the tales, it's all there under the dustsheets

Unfortinately their factory is entirely unsuited to such a big change in manufacturing techniques without more investment than starting from scratch. One of our Trade Reps visited the Campagnolo factory recently and was surprised at the acres of machinery now under covers. Sounds like...

Making smaller holes in a structural component is less likely to cause failure😃

Let's face it The name "Campagnolo" (and copyright on all the trademarks within) is worth a lot more than a business losing multi-millions a year and all sorts of legal obligations hanging on over priducts, workforce, physical infrastructure and so on. If they follow the raleigh path, you can...

Campagnolo launches overhauled Super Record, the world's first 2x13-speed, wireless road cycling groupset… and the iconic thumb shifter is back 13 speed electronic thumbshifter? Surely that's their way forward!😉

It's got a disappointingly neglected look right through.

Must be campag because they are sitting next to a pair of delta brakes.🤣 Axle hardware isn't campagnolo, I doubt the rest is.

Alloy nips are larger, and hub mounted tends to make them larger still - perhaps the shear force is greater, or Friction against the hub requiring more force to turn? There's a lot to be said for 32 evenly spaced steel spokes into brass nipples in the rim - but alternative solutions are fun. My...

I was looking at paint residue in the weld: That little steel insert on the bar clamp bolt is distinctive

Their stems just had a couple of stickers Looks like someone's removed the black paint and then left yours in the garden. 🙄

Looks quite ControlTech-y