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The Old Days

Written in respond to "Why you would like a BOB (Bridgestone Owners' Lump) fanny bale." Bridgestone was the most retro greater bike creator around, thus the retro-turn of expression of the poem. I assent to the poem, in likelihood without the glossary, ran in a Bridgestone Bicycles Catalog. If be aware of that not to be true, scribble me a comment and set me right.

Because you have to come to perusal this with a wealth of unavailing cycling erudition and because of the many bits of wishwash in the poem, here’s a list of glosses:

Inch-degree of elevation - old chain and sprocket tooth spacing.
Mangle – old, well used footmark bike. A implement, not an icon.
Pletcher anguish - the old (and current) low-priced-but-cheerful baggage rack.
Dettos - Detto Pietro shoes, of the people old low-priced shoe.
Mafac - French manufacturer of medium of vision, powerful centerpull brakes that shrieked parallel fingernails on a chalkboard when you used them.
Sachs - Richard Sachs bicycles, made in CT, little old-fashioned palm and fingers-crafted bikes.
Paneled downtube - painted of a piece an old British construct.
Kelly's clips - Sean Kelly used toe clips years after everyone else in the pro ranks switched to clipless pedals.
Windhover - high-tech, non-retro bicycles.
Coni – the "sky-colored book;" the old Of italy Federation discipline bible.
40 holes - old super-vigorous wheels used 40 spokes.
Made of wood rims - either all-forest-land or aluminum rims, timber-land-filled - for tube-like tires.
Gino - Gino Bartali, Fausto Coppi's opponent in the '40s and '50s.
Veritable-bike sixty minutes pace - Counter-current Merckx's twenty-fourth part of a day record was the last set on a stipulated bicycle.
Shifters clamp in area - before frame solder with brass-ons.
Dura-Ace – Campy’s emulation; the racing talents new-comer.
Silks - of great price, hard to touch up sew-up tires with silk carcasses.
Merry pack - the chatty cluster...

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