The new issue arrived today and while eating lunch I set out to read it. I
was pleasantly surprised to find that it is what I feel is the best issue I
have seen yet of it. In the past I have felt that it was a poor fit between
me and the magazine because of its' seemingly endless preoccupation with
French Randonneur and touring bicycles.not exactly at the top of my
interests. This issue had a fabulous and long article on Jack Taylor
Cycles, some great testing and good discussion of stiffness or frame
deflection. I am not sure I agree with all of it (I have yet to be
converted into a believer in "Planing", for instance. I have always
suspected it is just those wonderful times when you have been riding long
enough to have a real second wind and manage to get into a long run with the
wind at your back and suddenly you discover you are strong enough to leap
tall buildings at a single bound, at least until you turn back into the
wind.) At any rate the frame deflection issue is something I am very much
interested in as one of my Masi bikes was the one used in that Sheldon Brown
article on the matter.
http://www.sheldonbrown.com/
I would suggest that if you haven't gotten into this magazine before, do check out the Summer 2009 issue. Jan and his compatriots have done a really outstanding job on it.
Tom Sanders
Lansing, Mi USA