50 Years Ago: May 1969 in Bicycling! magazine
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50 Years Ago: May 1969 in Bicycling! magazine
In this issue, we go back to the future at UC Davis in "A Campus Overridden" (provided in pdf only) and get a glimpse of pro racing's future in "Who Will Be the New Grand Master?"
The Road Test was the Dawes Galaxy. This was posted separately in an earlier Road Test/Bike Review thread and is not repeated here.
As usual, let me know if you'd like to see something else listed in the ToC and I'll do my best to send you a pdf. Just send me PM that includes your email address.
One last thing....can any of you marketing folks explain the imagery in the Raleigh ad to me?
The Road Test was the Dawes Galaxy. This was posted separately in an earlier Road Test/Bike Review thread and is not repeated here.
As usual, let me know if you'd like to see something else listed in the ToC and I'll do my best to send you a pdf. Just send me PM that includes your email address.
One last thing....can any of you marketing folks explain the imagery in the Raleigh ad to me?
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Back in 1969 I didn't own a bike. Had I seen the cover photo of Bicycling, I would have bought one in an instant. BTW, I did have a 3 speed a year later.
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The Raleigh ad is funny - they look like pirates. But the kid is holding a British flag, and the text on the side says that the "Apparel (is) from Truc International Shop of Cambridge." (Looks to have been a store in Cambridge, Mass.) So, maybe just the height of fashion that year? Or maybe that's what they think that Americans looked like? Good question what they were thinking.
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That Eddy fellow looks like he might have a chance at this bike racing thing.
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The Raleigh ad totally blows away the others'. '69 was hippy-yippee opt-out culture and the ad tries to appeal to non-conformists. I can hear Eric Burden and the Animals playing Sky Pilot in the background. A crazy time in the USA
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I was still saving for my first bike to be purchased with my own funds.
My Great Aunt drove me up to Berkeley to look at the hippies.
Gold was about $41. per troy oz.
Wage and Price controls would come in 2 years.
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My Legnano was only 5 years old then.
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FWIW: I ran into Eddy Merckx at Interbike in 1991. A true gentleman.
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In 1969 I had been living in the USA—my new home—for just two years. I was just a kid and all things were possible.
I had a banana seat five-speed Western Flyer bike that my parents bought me for my birthday. Life was good.
I had a banana seat five-speed Western Flyer bike that my parents bought me for my birthday. Life was good.
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State-sponsored even (said with a Snagglepuss voice). Exit, stage left.
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You're welcome. Many more to come.
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Nice! I was just getting out of eighth grade, getting ready for high school. I had my trusty Schwinn Super Sport (which I still have).
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Thank you for scanning and posting! I remember the bikes of that era well, along with Dr. Paul Dudley White, who had been trying to get American adults into bicycling for 5 years by then.
I was a car-free UCLA freshman commuting to campus on my 1962 Bianchi Corsa, just getting into serious bicycling and active in the Earth Action Council, which promoted bike lanes. I eventually got my girlfriend (now wife of almost 46 years) into bicycling a couple of years later, when I outfitted the Bianchi with Schwinn stem shifters, wider-range gears, and Peugeot UO-18-style handlebars for her. Good times.
I was a car-free UCLA freshman commuting to campus on my 1962 Bianchi Corsa, just getting into serious bicycling and active in the Earth Action Council, which promoted bike lanes. I eventually got my girlfriend (now wife of almost 46 years) into bicycling a couple of years later, when I outfitted the Bianchi with Schwinn stem shifters, wider-range gears, and Peugeot UO-18-style handlebars for her. Good times.
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10-29-19, 12:27 AM
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I am SO regretting selling my Bicycling! magazine collection from 1973 through the very early 1980s ... but then again, I had memorized them all ... because no internet browsers or decent television back then.
The Dallas (Texas) downtown library used to have back issues by request ... but when I last checked, they got rid of them all.
The Dallas (Texas) downtown library used to have back issues by request ... but when I last checked, they got rid of them all.
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