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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