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Wednesday 20 April

Wallingford Blog = WALLBLOG

By Bill

Over the last few days a few of you have noticed the discrete BLOG link in the header. I started writing it but I wanted to build up the content a little before I made a larger announcement. I am going to start putting the newsey/chatty stuff there that we have been putting on this page.

There is still work to do on the layout. I am trying to figure out how to get the sidebars the way I want them, for instance, but it's fun. I like the blog format (Wordpress, in this case) because I don't have to worry about layout and organization. The tags and categories let the reader pull any information thread and everything attached comes right out.

I'm not sure what we'll do with this opening page. I don't want the wall to wall advertising that you see on so many sites. But we'll go along for a while and something will suggest itself.

Meanwhile, one of the beauties of the blog format is the conversational nature. Feel free to contribute a comment. I would like to see what you have to say. Right now I am asking for your inflated Schwalbe tire measurements to add to the handful that I have collected.

Tuesday, July 8th

Thursday, July 3rd

Brooks BARBICAN Messenger Bag

Monday, 2 June

Brooks cork and wood bar plugs

Wednesday, 28 May

soon. . . . ZWEI!

7/3 Update - Sorry, I've been teasing you about this for more than a month. A shipment was lost in transit. They are sending more. Maybe we will have them in a week. Bill

Thursday, 24 April

A New Leather Saddle

Gilles Berthoud has been developing his own version of the traditional leather saddle. We have the story of this project in his own words.

Thursday, 27 March

NEW! Brooks BRICK LANE Panniers.

Wednesday, 26 March

Nate Saltus' Schwinn Collegiate. Nate says the fenders are original!

This Brooks couch was created by Scarabike - "a bicycle producing company" in Japan. They have a matching stool.

See the contest summary to find out
what was wrong with the picture.

Friday, July 14th

1935 - The Development of Gearing

The mid-30s was a time of development for the multi-speed drivetrain. This week's 'Cycling' PDF features advertisements picturing gearing innovations from Oscar Egg, Villiers, Cyclo, and Sturmey Archer.You can download this 4 page PDF to explore these steps-on-the-way-to-the-modern-drivetrain further. Bonus: an ad for "Something Really New; automatic quick release hubs" from Campagnolo.

Monday, July 3rd

Bobet Wins Tour de France

An account of the mountain stages and final time trial that ended the1954 fiftieth-anniversary Tour de France was published in the August 5th, 1954 edition of "Cycling" magazine. Louison Bobet won convincingly after a very strong ride."It was literally a fury of speed"
"Bobet was in a mood rampant."

You can download this 5 page article in PDF format.

Friday, May 30th

What Would the Bike of AD 2000 Look Like?

In 1954 Britain's "Cycling Weekly" asked their readers what they thought the bicycle would look like in the year 2000. We came across the 2nd installment of this article recently and thought it was pretty interesting. Some of the predictors had a pretty accurate crystal ball; "Mass produced frames will be electrically welded but craftsman-specialists will still build bicycles. . . .by hand, to the requirements of the conniseur." Some missed the mark pretty wide; Tyres "will be made of plastic and filled with a Latex foam compound so that punctures will cease to exist."We have reproduced this two page article in PDF format for those of you who are interested. If you would like to see more of these historical articles let us know. Now. . . if we could only find that March 18th, 1954 issue that has the first part of this article.

worthy causes but they don't fit our criteria.

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Bill Laine, prop.
Lizzy Haskins, manager
Brent Badeaux, shipping/receiving
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