Re: [CR]Fwd: Where do you get your bicycle history?

(Example: Production Builders:Tonard)

Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:58:46 +0100
From: "M-gineering" <info@m-gineering.nl>
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Fwd: Where do you get your bicycle history?
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Amir Avitzur wrote:
> As a kid I read Bicycling!
> Even then, I could see that a lot of what was written didn't jive with my
> experience on the road. I'd hate to think that old Bicycling! magazines are
> being considered historically correct today. (Same goes for a whole slew of
> bike books from that period.)
>
> A lot of the articles in Bicycling! in the 70's seemed to be spoon-fed by
> the advertisers. I wonder if 40's and 50's French or Italian bike mags were
> any better.

Indeed, never believe everything you have read in magazines (current magazines not excepted) and never believe the things bicycle racers say. There is a whole industry depending on the fact that you can make racers believe anything ;)

-- mvg

Marten Gerritsen
Kiel Windeweer
Netherlands