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Old 04-07-10 | 07:14 PM
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Originally Posted by JanMM
Most of the current catalogs are just teasers for online content......thinking of Nashbar, Performance, etc. Not like the Good Old Days when retailers put out catalogs jammed full of everything they carried.
How about the Bikecology (??) catalog of the late '70's (??) with a photo of a scantily clad young lady holding a seatpost with the caption "Grease well before inserting"?
I remember THOSE!

I don't bother with paper catalogs much anymore, they are little more than a sales flyer and seldom have the parts I am looking for anyway.

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