i haven't seen pictures of the bike, so i'm not sure how relevant this is, but if i'm remembering correctly my dad used to put a couple of wraps of medical tape around the curved part of his brake levers back when he was racing in the late '60s. he said it gave him more control.
galen pewtherer san francisco, ca, usa
On 1/25/07, Joe Starck <josephbstarck@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> --- Joe Starck <josephbstarck@yahoo.com> 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.
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> Joe Starck
> Madison, WI USA
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-galen