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Originally Posted by muttley
Why does the brand name of the products need to match? I pick bike components for their function not because they are the same brand.
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They don’t need to match; it’s a vestige from the (perhaps) pre-MTB era when the number of suppliers was fewer, and most were still family owned. Add to that, components came in a much wider range of sizes and lengths, and it was simply the norm to match within brands.