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Comment by smcin

6 months ago

> Sounds like their biggest problem is that the product is so good the domestic market may be saturated.

Sad how rare that is these days. Which other companies does that apply to?

Someone asked Rohloff how long their bicycle hub gears last, and the answer was, "We don't know. We've only been making them for 25 years."

A lot of German SMEs still work that way, even if their big engineering companies have rather lost their way.