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Old 12-14-15, 03:00 PM
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Do folks remember fondly Anybody's Bike Book? That was a load of fun and very informative, too.

I had a Glenn's Manual for many years. Recently, I mentioned here that I couldn't find it, and a very kind BF member sent me his old copy. It's a classic. The black and white pictures are very clear, and the lab coats are rather funny. Some procedures would be considered obsolete, but it's still a darned good book.
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Do folks remember fondly Anybody's Bike Book? That was a load of fun and very informative, too.
By Tom Cuthbertson, a great book and a great guy! There is a memorial ride for him every Spring on his favorite ride. It's a seventy mile loop, 2/3 pavement and 1/3 dirt in the Los Padres National Forest in central California. Tom used to do that ride on his Hetchins... long before anyone had ever thought up the term "gravel grinder."
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Originally Posted by Rocket-Sauce

Whoa. Thanks for posting this. Had totally forgotten that and how cool I thought it looked
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Originally Posted by SloButWide
1970 - helping my Dad patch a flat on my "english racer". It was a Raleigh single speed we got at a garage sale. I tried to convince kids it was cooler than their Stingrays with banana seats, but couldn't do wheelies or jump ramps 'cause my weight wouldn't shift far enough back.
There were some dudes in my neighborhood that could wheelie on a 10 speed, which I thought was pretty cool. I could never pull it off though (I was pretty scrawny growing up). The wheelies were pretty short, compared to what could be done with a banana seat bike, which was pretty much indefinite, subject only to manoeuvers such as stopping for a stop sign, or actual traffic. In my district, there was a special name for a prolonged wheelie, as opposed to one of limited duration; an indefinite wheelie we called a catwalk.
I suppose the difference in sustainability is due to the high centre of gravity of a 10 speed wheelie compared with a banana seat wheelie, making the 10 speed wheelie much less stable.

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Do folks remember fondly Anybody's Bike Book? That was a load of fun and very informative, too.
Certainly I do, my copy that I still have, somewhere , handed down from my dad.
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Kids these days (which sounds like the beginning of an angry sentence) can do prolonged wheelies on any kind of bike. I never learned to do them on any kind.
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Originally Posted by calamarichris
I was still riding BMX in the 70's, but I know what screams 80's: those goddam cycling caps with the bill turned up:

uh....that is one correct way to wear them. Been that way since long before the 80s. You can also wear them backwards with the bill flipped down to keep the sun off your neck.



Eddy says it's cool..

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Originally Posted by hastel
It is a Zebrakenko Thunder.
Very fond of Zebras from that era, I have four of them at this point. A mixte is pretty rare.
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Originally Posted by CV-6
Eddy says it's cool..
Show me the quote and the time when Eddy said it was cool. They were more utilitarian than cool back in the 60's, but about a decade and a half after better headgear came along, cycling caps became props for Boy George and George Michael.

Feel sorry for my fellow old-timers who liked wearing them, (I never did even when racing in NL, Belgium, & Germany when it was actually cold enough to warrant wearing something under one's leather hairnet), but their fashion has been commandeered by someone else (who perhaps also shave their legs.)



Between that and their cannibalization of our rainbow jersey, the culture of cycling has been very generous to gay culture.
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Originally Posted by calamarichris
Show me the quote and the time when Eddy said it was cool.
He's wearing it, isn't he? Nuff said.
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Originally Posted by CV-6
He's wearing it, isn't he? Nuff said.



Perhaps... Either that or Eddy was wearing it because it was a cold day and there was a utilitarian purpose for wearing the cap that did not involve looking like one of Elton John's backup singers.

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With a banana seat, you could slide back until your butt was over or even past the rear axle, and lift the bike - then it was a matter of balancing your weight and the bike's weight. Much harder with a classical diamond frame.

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Originally Posted by SloButWide
With a banana seat, you could slide back until your butt was over or even past the rear axle, and lift the bike - then it was a matter of balancing your weight and the bike's weight. Much harder with a classical diamond frame.

Yes, doing a "manual" before it was called such by the newschoolers.
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Originally Posted by Trueblood
Very fond of Zebras from that era, I have four of them at this point. A mixte is pretty rare.
Those are getting rare. I found one 10yrs ago for 10$ at a thrift shop, I think it was the "Wind" model?? Had Rigida 700c, diacompe centerpulls, ishiwata 022 and most memorably a Suntour BL rear derailleur.

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... and most memorably a Suntour BL rear derailleur.
Tell me about BL derailleurs, please. Even though I was riding when they were current, I don't remember them. My Univega has them and they have given me no reason to complain.

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Originally Posted by engineerbob
Tell me about BL derailleurs, please. Even though I was riding when they were current, I don't remember them. My Univega has them and they have given me no reason to complain.

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Visually, they stood out with a blue vinyl (?) band across the derailleur body. I dont think they were produced in large numbers and seriously dont think they were lighter than a first or second gen Cyclone of the earlier production. Wish I had more info to share with you.
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Originally Posted by calamarichris


Perhaps... Either that or Eddy was wearing it because it was a cold day and there was a utilitarian purpose for wearing the cap that did not involve looking like one of Elton John's backup singers.

Yes reading is fundamental. I read that it is sad your primary association with a cycling cap having the bill turned up is negative in your eyes. As an "old timer" myself, I never gave any thought to the pop culture aspect and could care less if some facet took a liking to cycling caps. Well I would probably draw the line at ISIS/terrorists but they aren't pop culture.
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Originally Posted by steelbikeguy
fashion is a fickle thing..

I don't think this was ever in fashion in the US, but maybe in the UK where this Raleigh catalog was designed??



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At least, I hope not.!
Many things in 70's Britain were brown. Clothes, cars & bicycles. Brown as far as they eye could see..
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Originally Posted by noglider
Kids these days (which sounds like the beginning of an angry sentence) can do prolonged wheelies on any kind of bike. I never learned to do them on any kind.
Same here..
I never progressed beyond the 'hop and try-not-to-fall-off-when-the-wheel-comes-down' stage. I was rubbish then, and I've not tried again since...
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Originally Posted by fidbloke
no...
At least, i hope not.!
Many things in 70's britain were brown. Clothes, cars & bicycles, ales. Brown as far as they eye could see..
fify!
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Originally Posted by engineerbob
Tell me about BL derailleurs, please. Even though I was riding when they were current, I don't remember them. My Univega has them and they have given me no reason to complain.

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I put them on my Univega Specialissima back in the day. IIRC they were positioned one notch below the Cyclone II (the 'aero' one) when those came out. They always seemed to me to be almost exactly the same as a Cyclone I, except with blue paint stripe instead of a black paint stripe...
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Originally Posted by Fidbloke
No...
At least, I hope not.!
Many things in 70's Britain were brown. Clothes, cars & bicycles. Brown as far as they eye could see..
Many things here in California were brown also. And many more were Avocado.

I was only a kid, but I am sure that men would not have worn a scarf like that. Gold chains and leisure suits were actually worn, unfortunately.
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Originally Posted by steelbikeguy
fashion is a fickle thing..

I don't think this was ever in fashion in the US, but maybe in the UK where this Raleigh catalog was designed??



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That dude's outfit reminds me of every feminine hygiene commercial in the 70's... (which, I didn't comprehend at the time).
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Originally Posted by engineerbob
Tell me about BL derailleurs, please. Even though I was riding when they were current, I don't remember them. My Univega has them and they have given me no reason to complain.

Thanks.

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Here's the link to the disraeligears webpage about the Blueline dérailleurs. I had them on an '83 Trek 560. Not my favorite Suntour dérailleur, but maybe I was unduly influenced by the underwhelming review on Disraeli Gears.

SunTour BL derailleur (3200)
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Mine are aren't blue! I've been had!

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