40 Years Ago: August 1983 in Bicycling magazine
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40 Years Ago: August 1983 in Bicycling magazine
Articles/Columns included in this post are:
INSIDE BICYCLING (editorial) "And the Winner Is..."
"Where Do Bicycles Come From?" (a look at the bicycle industry structure)
TECHNICAL Q&A
The following articles in this issue were posted previously:
ROAD TEST: Cannondale's Stiff New Touring Bike (https://www.bikeforums.net/classic-v...ring-bike.html)
"Different Strokes -- Bicycling Tests Pumps" (https://www.bikeforums.net/classic-v...oor-pumps.html)
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INSIDE BICYCLING (editorial) "And the Winner Is..."
"Where Do Bicycles Come From?" (a look at the bicycle industry structure)
TECHNICAL Q&A
The following articles in this issue were posted previously:
ROAD TEST: Cannondale's Stiff New Touring Bike (https://www.bikeforums.net/classic-v...ring-bike.html)
"Different Strokes -- Bicycling Tests Pumps" (https://www.bikeforums.net/classic-v...oor-pumps.html)
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Great issue!
Background on the McCullough column: Because Gary Fisher and I had successfully bluffed the entire industry into thinking that we had a trademark on "MountainBikes," and because Gary was close to Bicycling, they did not use the term "mountain bike" generically. So they needed another term for the one that had already gone generic among the cycling community. Here is the question that the column "answered."
Background on the McCullough column: Because Gary Fisher and I had successfully bluffed the entire industry into thinking that we had a trademark on "MountainBikes," and because Gary was close to Bicycling, they did not use the term "mountain bike" generically. So they needed another term for the one that had already gone generic among the cycling community. Here is the question that the column "answered."
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Miss those days.
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Hey Charlie. I just noticed you changed your avatar.
Your new one is similar to NBA's logo and their use of Jerry West's image within the red, white, and blue.
Really cool. Maybe you should change your user name to "The Logo".
Your new one is similar to NBA's logo and their use of Jerry West's image within the red, white, and blue.
Really cool. Maybe you should change your user name to "The Logo".
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I found this in the May 1987 issue.
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I bought one of those “stiff new Cannondale touring bikes” as soon as it arrived in the shop. I wish I still had it. Neat bike.
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I would like to see the article on Cannondales please and what Sheldon had to say about socket wrenches.
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Socket Wrenches (Sheldon Brown)
The link to the Cannondale road test was included in Post #1 of this thread. It is still active.
Here is the Sheldon Brown article about socket wrenches.
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In the folding bike question I saw Pingle, who is still around albeit non bicycle. their kit sure wasn't their core business.
Pingel Enterprise, Inc. ? High Quality Motorcycle Performance Products
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In the editorial regarding what to call mountain bikes, I noticed mention of a Gary T. Aoki voting to call them "terra trekkers", I worked with a Gary Aoki in Salt Lake City who could easily have been that guy... He'd mentioned a time or two riding his terra trekker back in the olden days.... Shame the article never mentioned where Gary T. Aoki was from.
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While it is really nice to see a picture of Peter Winnen, and I have no doubts about the quality of Miyata frames (big fan here), there is one thing I would like to address: the "Tour des Flandres" in the title.
Flanders is the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium, and as there has always been tension in Belgium between Flanders and the French-speaking people of Wallonia, the title really should have been "Ronde van Vlaanderen".
Having said this, these days the tension seems to have lessened and the "Retroronde van Vlaanderen" is a big C&V event, with a fair number of Walloons participating.
Flanders is the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium, and as there has always been tension in Belgium between Flanders and the French-speaking people of Wallonia, the title really should have been "Ronde van Vlaanderen".
Having said this, these days the tension seems to have lessened and the "Retroronde van Vlaanderen" is a big C&V event, with a fair number of Walloons participating.
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While it is really nice to see a picture of Peter Winnen, and I have no doubts about the quality of Miyata frames (big fan here), there is one thing I would like to address: the "Tour des Flandres" in the title.
Flanders is the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium, and as there has always been tension in Belgium between Flanders and the French-speaking people of Wallonia, the title really should have been "Ronde van Vlaanderen".
Having said this, these days the tension seems to have lessened and the "Retroronde van Vlaanderen" is a big C&V event, with a fair number of Walloons participating.
Flanders is the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium, and as there has always been tension in Belgium between Flanders and the French-speaking people of Wallonia, the title really should have been "Ronde van Vlaanderen".
Having said this, these days the tension seems to have lessened and the "Retroronde van Vlaanderen" is a big C&V event, with a fair number of Walloons participating.
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You have to understand that then, as now but especially then, the average American would have had no idea what a Flahute or a Walloon was, much less the difference between them. To far too many Americans, a Belgian is a Belgian is a Belgian, and all non-English languages sound alike.
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Oh, it's not the average American I was addressing. It's the people responsible for that particular ad. Miyata started their European career in Belgium with the IJsboerke team and should have known better. And the ad agency didn't even manage to spell Tour des Flandres correctly more than once in the same ad.
But yeah, you'd think they would have known better.
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Oh, it's not the average American I was addressing. It's the people responsible for that particular ad. Miyata started their European career in Belgium with the IJsboerke team and should have known better. And the ad agency didn't even manage to spell Tour des Flandres correctly more than once in the same ad.
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That latter. But the cultural differences between our countries are bigger than one would expect, given their proximity and language similarity.
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... but no, I don't think so. Indifference is the only plausibele explanation I can come up with.
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No doubt! I have wanted to visit Bruges and will do so eventually. I think it is in Flemish country, isn't it?
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