SpeedofLite 

Articles/columns included in this post are:
QUESTION MAN
"Packing for a Tour"

The following articles from this issue were included in past posts:
BICYCLE WORKSHOP: Wheel Equipment II (Jow) Equipment/Product Review (1978) Wheels Revisited (second article)
"All About Freewheels" (Berto) https://www.bikeforums.net/classic-v...reewheels.html
ROAD TEST: KLEIN Team Super https://www.bikeforums.net/classic-v...eam-super.html
"A Center of Craft" https://www.bikeforums.net/classic-v...us-design.html

Otherwise, 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 send you a pdf.
If the latter, just send me a PM that includes your email address.

52telecaster

Thankyou man! Such a treat to revisit these articles.

steelbikeguy

Cool!
Thanks for the link to the Berto article on freewheels. I'll have to read that.

Speaking of the late, great Frank Berto, has anyone ever put together an index of his articles?
I looked through my modest archive of Bicycling magazines, and only found three...

April 1978 - Ultimate City Bicycle

Jan/Feb 1980 - All About Rear Derailleurs

March 1982 - Todays Improved Freewheel Designs

It would be so nice to have an index to Bicycling articles. Jan Heine has done this for (Vintage) Bicycle Quarterly, and it's handy for looking stuff up. I've scanned a number of my old Rivendell Readers, and am creating an index to those articles. Again, it's been very useful when I knew/thought that an article existed, but had no desire to thumb through 20 or 40 issues to find out which one.

Of course, this can be a fair bit of work. When I was scanning Riv Reader articles, I was already typing the names of the articles, so it wasn't much more work to put it into a spreadsheet, and sometimes include the author's name.

Steve in Peoria

Pompiere

Seeing the 35mm camera, lenses, and film in the handlebar bag makes me wonder if the current trend toward front panniers was driven by the move to digital cameras and/or smart phones. The camera equipment in the picture weighs several pounds, so you would need to move some weight forward to balance the load when you switched to a 4 ounce smart phone.

cycleheimer

I love the '70s-style touring set-up on page 53! It's what I was aiming at with my commuter. There is so many great little details within the photos and ads you find in these magazines! Thanks for sharing!

repechage

The Columbus advert reminded me about the Ultima Group, an attempt to have an Italian bicycle component cartel. It immediately killed off the private distributors for a time, the added layer of mark up was not tolerated. It collapsed, took a while. Wrong timing, post bike boom and into the pre mtb lull. When mtbs took off, they were not using Italian components.

rider19

Bicycling magazine is indexed in various academic databases.

I exported the records of Berto's articles from three different databases. Can't post attachments, so I'm sending them through the link below.

swisstransfer.com/d/9960646c-0b46-4903-a935-a3436de71f5d

Colorado Kid

Man, I wish Bicycling was as good as in the old days. Today it s............! I miss the old days when you waited for the mailman to bring you the latest copy of Bicycling. The whole world would seem to stop while you spent hours reading the latest copy. How about you?

52telecaster

You speak the truth!

steelbikeguy

Very cool! Thanks!

Back when I was in college, some magazines were archived on microfiche and could be viewed. I assume that this stuff has been digitized?? Anyone know whether any of these are available?
There were so many bound collections of magazines that I used to peruse in college when I should have been studying. There were aviation magazines dating back to the beginnings of the industry, and were fascinating to browse through. I can't imagine that there are sufficient resources to get them all scanned and available to the public (or even the college's students).

Looking through the index of Frank Berto articles, I see that the December 1981 issue of Bicycling has an article on the Story of Avocet.
Anyone have this scanned and handy?? (it doesn't hurt to ask)

Avocet was quite the ground breaking company. I've still got a few of their bike computers in use on my bikes. Not as reliable as a Cateye, but plenty of features and effective!



Steve in Peoria

RCMoeur 

I learned a lot from the 1980-1984 issues - great information. Later in my career, I got to meet and know some of the authors. Still friends with at least one of them.

As an LAB Life Member, one item included is/was a subscription to Bicycling Magazine. After Hearst bought the magazine, it almost immediately became unreadable. I actually took the step of cancelling the free subscription (no need to print, process or mail something I don't want).

RCMoeur 

I have been using Avocet 45s continuously since the mid-1990s. I like the cadence readout as a reminder / verification. I have one head in use, and mounts on each of the bikes. I have a measured calibration course I use to set the circumference for each bike, and the RWGPS readings are usually dead-on or within 0.1 mile. I have several backup 45s carefully stored away - they're getting very hard to find, even at swaps.

I just put a set of barely-used Avocet Cross K 1.25s on my primary bike. The sidewalls look OK - we'll see how well they hold up. Last time I tested a Cross K recently, the tread started coming off in chunks after less than 500 miles.

SpeedofLite 

https://www.bikeforums.net/classic-v...-magazine.html
Yep, and you even "Liked" it.

steelbikeguy

Thanks again for that!

I was reading it and thinking.. "but where's the Avocet bike computer?", and then realized it was just a bit before it was introduced.

Going down the thread, I looked at my post and I had mentioned that detail. Glad to know that my priorities really haven't changed much, even if I forgot about the thread.

Steve in Peoria

rider19

A little late, but since you mentioned aviation magazines, I thought you may like these articles:
www.swisstransfer.com/d/51e6ec26-cdbb-4bfc-a404-3c89c4c4d324

rider19

A little late, but since you mentioned aviation magazines, I thought you may like these articles:

swisstransfer.com/d/51e6ec26-cdbb-4bfc-a404-3c89c4c4d324

Colorado Kid

Funny thing, I understand (this is what I heard.) that Bicycling is in deep s....Low readership and few and fewer are reading print magazine. Sad. I read Bicycling when it was great. The world stopped when I got it. (So it seemed.) How about you?

steelbikeguy

thanks!
I'm partway through them, but it's always interesting to review how these sorts of technologies evolve. So many people contribute to solving parts of the overall puzzle, and it becomes difficult to make a simple statement like "Bob Smith invented the <insert gadget here>".
The Wright brothers did make a big step in figuring out a decent way of controlling the aircraft's pitch, roll, and yaw, as well as just applying good research techniques to finding answers.

It is nice that their success was partly due to their understanding of the principles of the bicycle. Even the United States Air Force recognizes this, since their museum starts with the Wright brothers and other earlier pioneers of aviation. One of the Wright's "Van Cleve" bikes is displayed near the first Wright military aircraft. I should note that the museum is located at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, where the Wrights lived.

Steve in Peoria