45 Years Ago: February 1979 in Bicycling magazine
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45 Years Ago: February 1979 in Bicycling magazine
Articles/columns included in this post are:
LETTERS
TECHNICAL Q and A
BICYCLE WORKSHOP "The Ultimate Bottom Bracket" (Bullseye Rollerbracket)
The following article from this issue was included in a past post:
ROAD TEST and EVALUATION: Eleven Three-Speeds" (https://www.bikeforums.net/classic-v...-3-speeds.html)
It is also attached to this post as a pdf for possible ease of viewing the tables.
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 as a link to a pdf.
LETTERS
TECHNICAL Q and A
BICYCLE WORKSHOP "The Ultimate Bottom Bracket" (Bullseye Rollerbracket)
The following article from this issue was included in a past post:
ROAD TEST and EVALUATION: Eleven Three-Speeds" (https://www.bikeforums.net/classic-v...-3-speeds.html)
It is also attached to this post as a pdf for possible ease of viewing the tables.
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 as a link to a pdf.
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The Graftek brings back some memories. I had a buddy who owned one. He thought it was a bit whippy so he then bought one of the first Kleins. He had a sort of Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde personality when it came to choosing bikes.
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It is great to see bikes with toeclips, which I still ride.
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"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." --Theodore Roosevelt
Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
Carlton: 1962 Franco Suisse, S/N K7911
Peugeot: 1970 UO-8, S/N 0010468
Bianchi: 1982 Campione d'Italia, S/N 1.M9914
Schwinn: 1988 Project KOM-10, S/N F804069
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The Cannondale was predictably stiff, responsive and competent.
The Trek had oodles more compliance and handled terribly.
Only when I finally replaced the front tire, getting rid of the original Panaracer TT Radial, did the bike handle normally, if slow.
Mercifully reduced if not gone though was the delay in steering response.
The following year, I finally removed the other radial tire (that I had installed on the rear rim after the rear tire wore out), and yet again the handling improved quite noticeably.
Those radial tires sucked, their long tread life making things yet much worse by extending the agony of riding on them. It was just as if they had lateral free-play between the tread and the rim, making the bike handle like a boat.
Surprising to read no less than Fred DeLong (Q&A) stating that a fork with less rake will make the steering quicker.
Although I have often momentarily confused the bicycle fork term rake with the way that it is used in the motorcycle world, where rake refers to the head tube angle measured off of vertical (such that less rake actually does make the steering quicker).
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Love the cover bike , one of my favorite riders is my Windsor Profesional! I almost rode it today but the ItalVega won the coin toss. Always a delight to see these mags from our young cycling days. I used to flip through these at a bike shop where my friend built racing frames. I never raced but in my twenties I rode a lot ….no car.
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"Remember when Exxon made a championship-winning bike?"
I remember a local rider had a Graftek around 1981 or so. And then he moved on to a different bike, and I don't recall much being said about what happened to the Graftek.
I remember a local rider had a Graftek around 1981 or so. And then he moved on to a different bike, and I don't recall much being said about what happened to the Graftek.
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