>>1220523The Arabesque 600 is one of the ugliest derailleurs of all time, mixing gaudy faux-baroque flourishes with italic block font and a penchant for appending numbers to names like an Atari.
The Nuovo Record looks oddly and quaintly dated, even for it's time. A slightly embellished industrial product coming from the immediate post-war era in the 40s when industrial and mass production technologies ruled the day, but small unnecessary aesthetic details provided some contrast to the harsh utilitarian and rationed spartan lifestyle of the war and depression.
Either design looks painfully dated compared to other industrial design even in the 60's.
It is in retrospect that these designs look classic only because they have been revered as classics by others, since the people pining for times bygone clearly never lived them, hoping only to return to the better times of yesteryear.
Their comments betray a willful ignorance of which they speak. They do not have extra pivots, they have a Campagnolo-to-direct-mount adapter included. Direct-mount is how Suntour would have designed a hanger if they were bold enough to do so. Yet these retrogrouches bemoan the inclusion of an adapter, yet instead preferring the days when a Huret used a different hanger than Campagnolo, and there was no common standard between frames, or even an adapter to allow for backwards compatibility for retrogrouches, you again will start yelling about incompatibility and planned obsolescence, despite being catered to. They work off a series of alternative facts in which that of olde is equal to or superior to that of new.
