[CR]BIKE WORLD collection, Woo-hoo!

(Example: Framebuilders:Cecil Behringer)

Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 19:16:48 -0800 (PST)
From: "brad stockwell" <brdstockwell@yahoo.com>
Subject: [CR]BIKE WORLD collection, Woo-hoo!
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <011301c3e099$edec2480$640a0a0a@linksys>


CR Folk:

I bought a complete set of Bike World magazine (1972 to 1980) last month and they just arrived. I haven't even finished browsing all the pictures yet, but they're full of cool stuff, for example:

A nice photo of the Carlton carbon-fiber bike from 1972 which was mentioned last week. Carlton feel that the carbon-reinforced plastic material has a future in bicycling!

Tons of Joe Kossack articles on equipment and framebuilding.

A roadtest directly comparing Merckx's bike to Coppi's bike.

A half-page Pino Moroni ad.

Zeus ads that I had never seen before.

A picture of Michel Pollentier (sp?) on a Splendor team bike with a clover on the headtube (I always wondered who made the Splendor bikes).

Plus a generous dose of the stuff I grew up with: racing photos of long-haired hippies with sideburns on groovy drilled-out bikes! I'm in the midst of a headlong plunge into what my college buddies used to call "BIKE MADNESS".

Sun up? Already?

As a side note, the first 5 years of the collection are in such immaculate untouched condition that the simple magnitude of their integrity is a shock.

Anyway, if someone yearns for info from Bike World, I can probably find it.

Brad Stockwell Palo Alto

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