Review of 100 Years of Bicycle Component and Accessory Design: Authentic Reprint Edition of The Data Book

100 Years of Bicycle Component and Accessory Design: Authentic Reprint Edition of The Data Book
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For obsessive bike collectors, mechanics, or framebuilders.

by: Anonymous On: 1999-05-25

The edition of "The Data Book" that I own has all of its text--what little there is--in Japanese. The book is almost all pictures, all of those line drawings, and most from the late French illustrator Daniel Rebour, the best technical illustrator that the bicycle world has ever been blessed with. I am a professional bike mechanic and an amateur custom frame builder who reveres French machines of the 40s to the 60s. Most of the illustrations in this book are from 1948 to 1959--where the chronology stops. When I first purchase it, I looked through it several times a day, now its kind of a security blanket and in- spiration that I grab after a hard day in the shop or before tackling a tough frame repair on one of my days off. The cyclist without a long time in the sport will read this and be shocked at the "nothing new under the sun" feeling the book will bring on. Anatomically kind saddles? Since the turn of the (last) century. Shock forks? 1935. Internally routed cables? 40s and 50s. What can I say; no text and drawings only, and it has something to interest every cyclist.

For obsessive bike collectors, mechanics, or framebuilders.

by: Anonymous On: 1999-05-24

The edition of "The Data Book" that I own has all of its text--what little there is--in Japanese. The book is almost all pictures, all of those line drawings, and most from the late French illustrator Daniel Rebour, the best technical illustrator that the bicycle world has ever been blessed with. I am a professional bike mechanic and an amateur custom frame builder who reveres French machines of the 40s to the 60s. Most of the illustrations in this book are from 1948 to 1959--where the chronology stops. When I first purchase it, I looked through it several times a day, now its kind of a security blanket and in- spiration that I grab after a hard day in the shop or before tackling a tough frame repair on one of my days off. The cyclist without a long time in the sport will read this and be shocked at the "nothing new under the sun" feeling the book will bring on. Anatomically kind saddles? Since the turn of the (last) century. Shock forks? 1935. Internally routed cables? 40s and 50s. What can I say; no text and drawings only, and it has something to interest every cyclist.