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Originally Posted by Velocipede
The bike parts company is very sound. They aren't going anywhere anytime soon. Campagnolo IS Bike Parts. Them closing or selling the bike division would be like Yozo Shimano selling his families bike division. Shozaburo Shimano and Tullio Campagnolo would roll over in their graves if that ever happened. I would suspect even worse for Campy as it's still family owned and run. A family trust controls it and all their holdings. Shimano is publicly traded. The family won't sell or get rid of Campy. They don't need to.
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I didn't say they were closing.....but you keep saying "they're fine they own a lot of real estate" here and in past threads. And all I said was just because someone owns a business and they own a lot of real estate that the business is doing great. That's all.
I hope they are doing great and I think this group looks pretty cool and might do well for them I don't know. Personally I think I am done with 1X except for maybe a mountain bike. If I had to choose between GRX and EKAR I think I'd go GRX 2x but not 100% sure. It would also depend on where I lived.
I think the OEM bikes are a good sign and could certainly help things, no doubt. I wouldn't hope for soft goods to drive hard goods but they did indeed put a good package together to tell the story and market the stuff. I still think that thumb shifter looks like it's and inch and a half wide but photos are funny.
Campy has a small market share compared to SRAM and Shimano and people have often wondered about the health of the company. People have written articles for years. People root for them but people are also realistic. It's hard to get real data and numbers sometimes from family owned enterprises like this. Man, Leica cameras come to mind before they finally went public with it all.
I wish them well and hope they sell a lot of it.
09-25-2020, 07:34 PM
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