Great reading. Thank you for the post.
I love the ads in these old magazine scans. Also it is interesting that a half century ago there were efforts to log serial numbers in a database to reconnect owners with their stolen bikes. These days, registering a bike with bikeindex.org seems so simple yet I wonder what percentage of bike owners thought it was worth doing and paying the yearly fee when it would have likely involved writing paper checks and postage.
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