50 Years Ago: January 1974 in Bicycling! magazine
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50 Years Ago: January 1974 in Bicycling! magazine
Articles/columns included are:
QUESTION MAN
BICYCLE WORKSHOP -- "Reconditioning a Bike" Part 4
"Salon de Bicyclette - Part 2" (1973 Paris Bike Show) is presented in Post #2 of this thread.
ROAD TEST - De Rosa (https://www.bikeforums.net/classic-v...4-de-rosa.html)
Let me know if you'd like to see something else listed in the ToC and I'll add it in a reply to this post or provide a link to a pdf.
QUESTION MAN
BICYCLE WORKSHOP -- "Reconditioning a Bike" Part 4
Part 1 is here: 50 Years Ago: October 1973 in Bicycling! magazine
Part 2 is here: 50 Years Ago: November 1973 in Bicycling! magazine
Part 3 is here: https://www.bikeforums.net/classic-v...-magazine.html
"Racing's Winter Madness -- Cyclo-Cross""Salon de Bicyclette - Part 2" (1973 Paris Bike Show) is presented in Post #2 of this thread.
Part 1 is here: https://www.bikeforums.net/classic-v...-magazine.html
The following article from this issue was posted previously:ROAD TEST - De Rosa (https://www.bikeforums.net/classic-v...4-de-rosa.html)
Let me know if you'd like to see something else listed in the ToC and I'll add it in a reply to this post or provide a link to a pdf.
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Interesting that the Kabuki ad didn’t include the Diamond Formula model. Great reading , I always enjoy these , thank you , Joe
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In November of 74 my freind Gary Cole finally got a copy of this mag at Caserma Ederly in Vicneza Italy. He had taken an Out in Vicenza after his DEROS with the 1/509th and had a civilian job at the PX on post. It took a month or two, sometimes even longer, for Bicycle Magazine to find its way there. Mid afternoon we took the mag and walked on down to the local bike shop. Gary sat down with Giovani Liotto to translate the mag cover to cover. Of course Marlboro tobacco, wine, bread, cheese eaten with greasy hands was present. We passed the mag around to the other guys as we went through it. It was good break.
Afterwards he took us around the creaky wooden floored shop and pointed out weathered pictures and clippings hung on the walls behind all the tires, tubes, frames, and tools. They were old pictures of racers covered in mud or climbing up dirt walls in races including the Tour De France. He had one word, "Brutale".
I had not yet saved up enough money to buy one of his bicycles. But it was coming soon. For a twenty year old guy like me I noticed something more in the air. We were brothers in cycling. Even the big Italian with fat hands over in the corner resewing a tubular flat. Something I have never done successfully... Ha
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The classic Gino Bicycle is still around: https://www.liotto.com/bici/gino-60
Found this guy with a similar experience: https://classicrendezvous.com/countr...y/liotto-gino/
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Love the cyclocross article by Owen Mulholland! Such a great description of the sport, and the photos really tell a story all by themselves!
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Thanks as always!
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Articles/columns included are:
QUESTION MAN
BICYCLE WORKSHOP -- "Reconditioning a Bike" Part 4
"Salon de Bicyclette - Part 2" (1973 Paris Bike Show) is presented in Post #2 of this thread.
ROAD TEST - De Rosa (https://www.bikeforums.net/classic-v...4-de-rosa.html)
Let me know if you'd like to see something else listed in the ToC and I'll add it in a reply to this post or provide a link to a pdf.
QUESTION MAN
BICYCLE WORKSHOP -- "Reconditioning a Bike" Part 4
Part 1 is here: 50 Years Ago: October 1973 in Bicycling! magazine
Part 2 is here: 50 Years Ago: November 1973 in Bicycling! magazine
Part 3 is here: https://www.bikeforums.net/classic-v...-magazine.html
"Racing's Winter Madness -- Cyclo-Cross""Salon de Bicyclette - Part 2" (1973 Paris Bike Show) is presented in Post #2 of this thread.
Part 1 is here: https://www.bikeforums.net/classic-v...-magazine.html
The following article from this issue was posted previously:ROAD TEST - De Rosa (https://www.bikeforums.net/classic-v...4-de-rosa.html)
Let me know if you'd like to see something else listed in the ToC and I'll add it in a reply to this post or provide a link to a pdf.
These are great, thanks!
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The two cyclocross race photos remind me that Euro style 'cross, as exemplified by the photo of DeVlaemink, has really become dominant; wide fast courses with short barriers and steep run-ups.
In the seventies the British and the Americans were racing on narrow or no-existant tracks, crossing creeks, and jumping over logs and park benches. That style of racing has pretty much died, at least here in the U.S. I'm curious whether there are any courses of that sort still in Britain.
Brent
In the seventies the British and the Americans were racing on narrow or no-existant tracks, crossing creeks, and jumping over logs and park benches. That style of racing has pretty much died, at least here in the U.S. I'm curious whether there are any courses of that sort still in Britain.
Brent
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