US small item tariffs.

[Nothin-fancy]

Very few bikes in the US have Campy parts. Mostly MTB based stuff here. Road bikes never caught on very much. Once upon a time Schwinn made more bicycles than everyone else combined. Trek used to build here. There are some hand made metal MTBs made.

I'm afraid the derailleur is "friction", but the shifter is indexed (duh) It's not specified because it's custom made for the desired number of speeds, and gear spacing of your particular cassette. Well probably not yours.

Road biking has always been big where I grew up and the west coast Campy distribution hub was a 30 minute ride away. So it's what everyone had, even on their mountain bikes when campy had Euclid etc.

As far as RH, seems like a fan boy parsing words and getting stuck on semantics. The real issue is the $900 for a dang derailleur that has technology that was perfected 40+ years ago. I just don't like the business model of having another company make your items because it's just meant for yourself and to show off or have other old men buy them. Let's be honest, those derailleurs are not seeing 10,000 miles a year...

If I ever came across anyone with that monstrosity in a group ride, I'd push the pace and see if they were $900 faster...

 

[Retrorockit]

Jan Heine is big on touring and long distance racing so miles per year is probably pretty good there.
When I needed some cranks threaded for a front freewheel I got them form S&S cycles in UK, not Rene Herse. Oh and they were Chinese Shun Sheng cranks. The same ones Robin Thorn uses on his tandems. Why no uproar about that?

If I ever came across anyone with that monstrosity in a group ride, I'd push the pace and see if they were $900 faster...

If they have his tires also, you might have your work cut out for you.

 

[Nothin-fancy]

If they have his tires also, you might have your work cut out for you.

Because it's definitely the tires/gear/bike that makes someone fast...

 

[Woz]

A big, beautiful factory, one of thousands of factories to open up here, and they contacted me and they said "Sir, please can we open our factory, your country is so hot right now and we want to be a part of it" and they are just one of many, one of thousands. Campy Deltas. I don't even know that means, but they tell me everybody wants to get some, and they'll be getting them from us. Thousands of factories. There might be more even, some say, hundreds of thousands which I think is more likely. There are numbers of vintage bike factories coming here, numbers, ocean numbers, the likes of which have never been seen before.