Wrote this 30 years ago. Packed it in shortly thereafter because I was tired of writing reviews of rebadged, Wellgo-made clipless pedals.
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The more I learn about you the more excited I am you’re here
I’m still jazzed I get to tell my friend from college that I’m on an obscure bike forum with Mile High Mark
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still waiting for High Mileage Steve to wash up
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truly.
so many people with such D E E P L O R E
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Anyone have any fav articles from Escape Collective?
I’m a fan of the Rob English articles they’ve published on bike geometry and fabrication stuff
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I’m partial to the one about me but that’s because I’m an egomaniac.
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The CNC heyday was a weird time in the bike biz. Every defense sub-contractor that had a dormant CNC system jumped on the bike parts wagon. Cranks, chainrings, bottom brackets, brakes/levers–you name it–were available in a gamut of brightly anodized finishes. Of the dozens of newly-minted companies, Paul was one of the very few that managed to survive.
This is one of the few trinkets from that timeframe that I saved. It’s somewhat ironic, as this miniature lever is cast, and not CNC-machined like Real’s life-size brake levers.
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Amazing anecdote and souvenir. We need more! Get the Tarck blog fired up. I volunteer to help.
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Do y’all remember BIKE magazine (Mike Ferrentino, et al)? Before that title came out, there was to be another, similarly named mag. This new magazine was the brainchild of the original Bicycle Guide crew. I found out about it through Maynard Hershon, as we both wrote for California Bicyclist magazine. Maynard put me in touch with Doug Roosa, and he threw a couple of assignments my way. It was supposed to be announced at Interbike, but funding fell through at the very last minute. I don’t remember the exact year, but it was probably around the time that Petersen Publishing Company bought Bicycle Guide. BG would eventually spin off MTB magazine, which I wrote for. Petersen was heavy into motorsports, but titles such as Sassy/Teen didn’t help their credibility with avid cyclists.
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Sassy was great
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Fun fact Petersen also bought Box Magazine a short lived rollerblading magazine sometime around 1998.
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I remember BIKE, but I was more of a Mountain Bike Action and BMX Plus! reader.
I also read Transworld Skate & Snowboard.
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I think I read BMXPlus! then Go! then Waxpoetics then Bicycling then the Rivendell Reader then DirtRag then Tarck.
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I loved BMXPlus! as well as Ride BMX and DIG. Almost every month we’d go into town and I’d go by Trend Bike Source off 12th St to pick up as many mags as I could.
This was the pinnacle of cool atmo
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I used to build dream bikes on the 1 page catalogs in bmxplus
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Has anyone ever done motorsports-style sponsorship livery on bicycles? Or I suppose better to ask; done it well?
Bicycles do this inherently with the labels on components, but going a little further with larger more visible logos does seem possible. The Standert bike looks good in person but lacks fullness; has unused canvas. The Low is better but looks a muddied with unclear symbology paired with smaller text.
Maybe the average racing bicycle doesn’t use enough different brands for it to work. There’s realistically maybe a 6-8 including kit.
Drivetrain
“Cockpit”
Tires
Wheels
Chain Lube
Sealant (?)
Kit
Shoes
That’s not enough. We’d have to get into after hours preferred cocktail cherries or something to fill things out?
Or could go the Panasonic route and spam the manufacturer name 6 times per side. Easy infill with the remaining logo placement.
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tomac’s yeti with the disc wheel
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Every time I see a Standert I think they must have had some kind of mixup where they used a custom font for their logo that the vinyl guy didn’t have and so the logo printed in the default font and they just went with it.
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