[CR]"This road-racer is named after Belgian Jean Aerts, who won..."

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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:27:21 -0800 (PST)
From: "Joe Starck" <josephbstarck@yahoo.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <20070124004407.46633.qmail@web34304.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
cc: chuckschmidt@earthlink.net
Subject: [CR]"This road-racer is named after Belgian Jean Aerts, who won..."


--- Joe Starck wrote:


> ...a nice green Aerts...the one with the cool touches
> of red cloth on the levers, as shown in my copy of
> Bicycle Guide, I think that's the magazine.

The subject heading of this post is how Jim Langley begins this almost full-page story in the September 1996 issue of "Bicycling" magazine, 35th anniversary, Greg Lemond & candled cake on the cover. I sold a buncha mags to the various lists about a year ago, but the pic of this bicycle, "courtesy of Chuck Schmidt's Velo Retro," kept me from throwing this magazine in with the lot. The bike has a look. What else can one say about it? Looks like the "red cloth" is more orangy, and maybe there's pics of the bike on-line, and I'm curious then, about the cloth stripes on the brake levers; I can't recall ever seeing this nice aesthetic touch on other bikes, anybody?

Lower right on the same page is a snippet of news about a group of women cyclists that were attacked at a Tehran velodrome for engaging in behavior deemed "un-Islamic," and the other news snippet lower left debuts a U.S. Post Office stamp of sprinter Paul Swift.

Joe Starck Madison, WI USA

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