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50 Years Ago: September 1970 in Bicycling! magazine

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50 Years Ago: September 1970 in Bicycling! magazine

Included articles are:

"A Day at the Races"

"Cycling As I Live It (Part 5)", a continuation of the author's cycling trip across Canada.

Parts 1-3 were first posted here: 50 Years Ago: July 1970 in Bicycling! magazine
Part 4 was posted here: https://www.bikeforums.net/classic-v...-magazine.html

Schwinn's Super Sport ad on the outside back cover.

The stage-by-stage coverage of the 1970 TdF is in pdf format, but the system won't attach it.
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I think a bike trip across Canada would be swell. Love the Schwinn supersport ad (check out the groovy clothes on the 2 riders); the ad almost makes me want to buy one, .
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Always great reads!! Thank you so much for these post. Now to write Mel Pinto Imports in DC to inquire about the Gitane Professional!!
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Cycling As I Live It

Looking over the story (part 5 here) by Irv Thomas titled, "Cycling As I Live It," I'm struck by his poetically lyrical writing.

This particular section rings true for me when I ride, is it so for you?

" And on the long, lonely days between people, I met myself. I was often asked what I thought about in solitude as I pedaled along the endless highways, and the answer is that you really don't think at all, you experience. You absorb the clouds, the bumps in the road, the variety of birds, the helpful and adverse winds, and you simply relate them to yourself-you don't think about them. The facade that used to be yourself gradually falls away and you become real. You're exuberant, you're exhausted, you're famished, and they're honest feelings and you don't much care how you look or what anyone thinks of you. For this short span of total freedom you are yourself."

I think the ability to simply experience this place and ourselves in it, as he says, is one of the great joys cycling offers us.
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