Originally Posted by
embankmentlb
Looking through adds and articles in bicycling magazine at 15 years old, my dream bike was a 3rensho aerodynamics. Almost 40 years later I actually have one. I must say the nostalgia lived up to the reality!
I didn’t even know there were bike magazines back then.
Second-hand Popular Science and Popular Mechanics were my mainstays, along with Time, Newsweek, and US News & World Report, two weeks old from the library.
I didn’t see an Italian bike until I was about 20. Didn’t recognize Campagnolo until about age 27, and I thought indexing was “really cool” when I first saw it in 1987. I bought an STI-equipped Ironman in 2004, promptly determined “these don’t work,” and took it to a shop, where she calmly shifted the chain back and forth and said “they work” with a straight face and handed the bike back.