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"Boy's Life" magazine. When I was eleven years old (in the early 60's) I subscribed to Boy's Life, the Boy Scout magazine in the U.S. They always had a full-page, back-cover advertisement from Schwinn bicycles... the ten-speed Varsity was the ultimate bike in my mind! Got one for Christmas...

Regarding the various comments regarding this young ladies rather unique appearance... as this shot shows, the original poster left out the some, ahem..., points in her favor.

A 42 x 18 will have you spinning at 100 RPM to achieve 18 mph, not bad at all for base training or commuting. Also the 42 x 18 will have you climbing hills up to 8% or more at speeds that will likely be faster than on your geared bike. It's the perfect all-round gear. If you want to push...

Will it take full fenders, is it drilled for front and rear brakes, gearing should probably be 42 x 18. After that it's price, price, price, and how many things will you have to alter. Like bars, stems, saddle. Oh, I might suggest getting mountain bike pedals. A little easier to clip into...

I'm sorry, Jonathan, but whether the Cyclocrossworld.com boys played questionable tactics on you or not, you clearly did not have what it takes today. And to interrupt TJs interview wasn't particularly classy. And it's sad, because I've always appreciated the guts you've shown by racing...

I have to get to work, so no time to go into this much further, except to say that here again is yet another example that having a doctoral degree is not the same thing as being smart. This infomercial is pretty much all baloney.

Yes, I do have better things to do... However, I just found myself looking back at all those wonderful TdF course previews on Competitor TV. This is my favorite, I think. http://video.competitor.com/2010/07/cycling/velocenter-tdf-stage-15-preview/ And yours?

For Pelkey... "I fart in your general direction!"

I totally agree with you, but I gotta' say that the adolescent in me LOVES that bike!

It's position. Sounds to me like your handlebars are too low, your stem too long, or a combination of the two. Also the suggestion that your bars might now be wide enough was a good one, but most bikes these days tend to have bars that are close to the correct width for a given frame size, so...

Six. Kona Zing road bike Kona Kula hardtail Kona Caldera rigid Bianchi 'cross bike Maruishi fixed gear Beautiful red Torelli steel road bike Used to also have a single speed cross bike I cobbled together from crap and a gorgeous, fabulous blue Guerciotti track bike with full Campy track...

...have to move out of this topic area and into General now? And has anybody told Michael Ball that the 80's were over a long time ago?

Not all, but many of the people who post on forums do so because they want to feel important. One of the ways the immature like to make themselves feel important is by belittling others, and if the target is someone who is popular, it's a double win in their mind. They can diss the target as...

They still have Lennard Zinn and Charles Pelkey. Pelkey's "Explainer" column is almost always interesting, and Zinn will even email you personally with an answer if he doesn't include your question in his tech column. The race coverage is fine. I mean, at least they don't go on and on about...

650's? Smaller? Looks like 24 inch wheels! What's the story here?