Italian Legend
The story of the Campagnolo Gran Sport begins immediately after the Second World War. It was a time when cycle racing was dominated by two Italians - Gino Bartali and Fausto Coppi.
Gino Bartali, a conservative man who saw himself as a skilled craftsman, loved the intricasies and complexities of Tullio Campagnolo's Heath Robinson rod-operated gear changers like the infamous Campagnolo Corsa. He used one to win the 1948 Tour de France.
Fausto Coppi, however, revelled in modernity, progress and technology - and despised Tullio's ornate contraptions. In 1949 Fausto Coppi defected from Campagnolo to Simplex, and horror of horrors, won the Tour de France. An Italian demi-god had triumphed using French equipment. Tullio Campagnolo was humiliated and mortified.
But the shock was exactly what was needed to get the, ever-cautious, Tullio off his backside and spur him to produce, in 1951, his signature Campagnolo Gran Sport derailleur. It, famously, adopted a parallelogram mechanism, and its strength and accuracy defined the way that derailleurs operate up to this very day
Quotation, at length, from Disraeli Gears
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most of the people on that post r lovely & it’s a special thing when i get 2 share any community abt my ocd at all but yeah that comment really got to me LOL! ik this is just a typical case of a post reaching outside a circle of mutuals to a place where the context / intent of what ur saying disappears. but it makes me rlly sad that a post i made in a intimate moment is getting used to project this awful idea about my own relationship to my disorder by a stranger. i have washed my hands bloody & lost miserable, countless hours of my life to physical compulsions. i have no interest in making my disorder more “palatable” & i often can’t. if u spoke to me for 5 minutes u’d know that. i should not have to publicly list the shaming & isolation i’ve experienced in the most vulnerable parts of my life just so u do me the decency of assuming that i’m commenting in good faith & from the drivers seat.
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Okay so apparently my migraines are being caused by arthritis in my jaw! I didn’t even know that was a thing! So you know what? Pro tip: if you get headaches or grind your teeth or clench your jaw maybe go see an TMJ specialist and have them look into it for you!
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At some point in tumblr history, the tumblr cycle of hipster media consumption added a component of "mandatory moral value" to its justification for praising or hating anything, which has made it exhausting to come across countless displays of mental gymnastics to justify, morally and ethically, why liking or not liking whatever piece of media (or part of it) makes you essentially a good or a bad person.
The cycle was always there, but it went from this
to this
and sometimes I think we're past it and then I go to a tag and come across some manifesto that makes me feel like I'm in hell.
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