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I hope there's an exhibit on the first generation ten-speed dura ace group set, which was a legitimate jump ahead in capability and precision when it was introduced in 2004. Everything since then has been refining some of the same.

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Apparently Dura Ace was introduced in 1973!

https://www.shimano.com/en/100th/history/products/14.html

I think it has always been the premium top-end of the Shimano product line? For me the most iconic will always be the 7700 and 7800 series, first generation of 9 speed and then 10-speed integrated brake/shift levers. In the era before the shifter cables moved under the bar wrap following the lead set of the first-gen SRAM Force.

I think Shimano become famed with "self-centering" derailleur some 50 years ago?

Before that you had to watch gears all the time.

I remember tinkering with my Ukrainian gears to make them more loose in "Shimano style".

https://uk-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B0%D1...

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