[John Rogers]

Back in thee day, well way back when I was still in the US Navy I would usually make a list of shopping places I would want to visit when we pulled into a certain port such as Hong Kong or other great place to shop. In 1984 my oldest daughter and I were racing bicycles very hard core so I planed to visit "Wings" shop on the mainland side of Hong Kong to get some Campy Super Record bits and also the brand new Shimano "click shifter" for my daughter. Sure enough they hard what I wanted and the prices were about 60% or the cost in Italy or the U.S. so I bought several sets of shifters and Campy Super Record bits and as soon as I got home they went onto my Daughter's Bill Holland road bike and also onto my Vitus criterium bike which I had bought I France.

In our first races there was a lot of looking and talking and so on and I was able to win a race in Ensenada MX which was a blast! My daughter won the "teenagers" race which was boys and girls together as that shifter sure helped! Now day there are electric shifters and all sorts of goodies.

Have any of you guys gone through things like that?