Originally Posted by
Kontact
And I do have "encyclopedic comprehensive and detailed knowledge of everything" - starting around 1988 when I got into cycling at 15 and began working on bikes and reading everything book and catalog I could find. But a considerable amount of bike technology history from the '70s was not really accessible to me, and even though I started working as a mechanic in 1990...
...yes, absolutely yes. No one could have said it better.