On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 7:44 AM, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote:
> > > On 05/25/2017 09:37 AM, Patrick Moore wrote: > > Cycling became fashionable relatively recently (last 15 years?) and only > after the "technology marketing" boom of the post- Cold War era. > > > Oh really? What was the Bike Boom of 1965 - 1975 > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bike_boom#20th_century>? > Did you forget about the hiatus ending with the mtb boom and the growth of Trek and Specialized? > > So I guess many enthusiasts really know little cycling history; know > little outside of what is in the big stores and in Bicycling and Velo News > and Bike Radar. That's too bad, since the further you go back, the more > commonality there is between different sorts of cycling; at least the Clem > is lugged steel and friction shifted. > > > Or it could just be that many of the people we're talking about are so > young and ignorant they know little about *any* history. "Vietnam War, > wasn't King Arthur involved in that?" > Tell that to the greybeards I see all around me who haven't heard of lugged steel before. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
