On Sun, 5 Aug 2007 14:21:57 -0400, "EXT"
wrote:

The cheap rubber is the
cause, it eventually off gassed most of the smell and now I don't notice it
any more.

We have a saying about cheap Chinese products at the bike shop. The
smell that comes out of the box is a mix of:

1.) Paints outlawed in the rest of the world.
2.) Body parts caught in the machine that rotted in the 40' container
during shipping.
3.) The sweat of forced child labor.

It is a noticeable smell, too.

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