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Originally Posted by marciero
What would be the benefit or incentive for companies to adopt uniform TA standard(s)? What is more surprising is that there are uniform standards of any sort. Chain pitch comes to mind. AFAIK has always ever been 1/2" or whatever it is. How did that happen?
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The companies that sell bikes generally benefit from standards if they make things. Because they have multiple sources of standard parts. Back when there were more consistent standards, they built frames, but nobody does that now, they just order complete bikes. The fact that the bike companies just order complete bikes from someone else probably lowers the resistance to proprietary nonsense. Trek and spesh seem to think they are big enough to drive new standards, but it doesn't always work out for them. Customers want to be able to buy 3rd party wheels, for example.
As far as the chain standard goes, Shimano tried to change to 10mm and it was rejected. They paid a group of American pros to race on 10mm though, so it was good in that sense.