SpeedofLite 

Articles/columns included are:
QUESTION MAN
IDEAS and INNOVATIONS
-- New Time Trial Records with IPD
-- Mairag Variable Geometry Crank
"On the Lighter Side of Bicycle Racing"

The following articles from this issue were included in past posts:

BICYCLE WORKSHOP: Saddles Part 2. (Equipment/Product Review (1978) Saddle Review)
Part I from the Feb 1978 issue is also there.

ROAD TEST: Custom Bicycles for Specific Needs (https://www.bikeforums.net/classic-v...n-serotta.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.

Repack Rider

Owen Mulholland was three days older than I am, and was a lifelong friend. He got me started writing for bike magazines.

79pmooney

The photo and reminder of Allan Kingsbery. For me, a memory both sad and angering. That was the time when the US cycling authority was ABRA (IIRC; I think that was 3 name changes ago). Putting riders first when it came to safety was not always emphasized. So - fast forward to 1980. Kingsbery was reigning US TT champ, defending his title in Wisconsin. Course was on a rural road, a quiet Sunday. It ran through a stop sign at an arterial with volunteer course monitors to stop traffic. 6 grade girls and too few. She/they (again I do not recall) was tied up with a stopped vehicle when both Allan Kingsbery and a cement truck working a Sunday job showed up. Kingsbery blew the stop sign. Truck driver just drove into the intersection just like any other with no stop sign (he was on a minor arterial). never dreaming a cyclist was going to blow the stop sign on the side street at 30 mph. (He had passed no signs warning him of a bike race happening. Hit Kingsbery square. He lived but that was the end of his racing.

By contrast, 3 years before when I was racing out of Boston under the district representative, Grace Jones, we all had to drive to New Hampshire for the State TT to do it on a state highway with an excellent shoulder and a very easy to monitor and negotiate roundabout as a turn around. (Irony - three years later, the top several placers would have qualified to put their lives at risk at the Nations.) Yes, we grumbled about having to drive to New Hampshire. And we all completely took for granted that we got to race on well laid out and monitored courses. It wasn't 'till I crossed the country that I realized what I witnessed wasn't always the norm. Then to read about what happened at the National Championships.? To the reigning champion? Because you were going to send him through a traffic control while riding to defend his title? That "governing" body lost my respect right there.

steelbikeguy

Always great to read one of Owen Mulholland's articles! He provides a lot of insight and context to the basic story of a race.

Steve in Peoria

79pmooney

The bike looking after you?

I had my avatar photo fix gear run into trivial chain slack issues before 2000' of descending to get home. Set the chain too loose and just moseyed down the hill. 5 miles from home the bike started bucking every time I touch the front brake. Both forks were about break. 1/3 and 2/3 cracked round the blades at the crown. (Metallurgy issue. Always heat treat high strength steel properly after nickle plating - or else!) I had a fork fail 3 years before Kingsbery got hit. Completely different injuries, but just as life changing.

xiaoman1 

And these are Eddie Bauer brand........Nothing says class on your A@# like EB.