"Bicycle Quarterly"

-Lael in Alaska
-Atlas Mountain Race
-Fern Bicycles
-Gramm Tourpacking
-R T Jansen
-All-Road Bike Make-Over
-Finding Drunken Charlie Lake

From Peter Gaskill’s adventures in Morocco during Lael Wilcox discovering her home state on a bike, the Summer 2020 edition is packed with exciting content. We take you into the workshops at Fern Bicycles and bag maker  [ ... mehr Info]

FEATURES:
*6 Bikepacking in Eritrea
*58 80 Years of Cycles Alex Singer
*78 Shop Visit: Guu Watanabe Bags
*86 Shop Visit: Brian Chapman Cycles
*100 Skill: Balance Your Load
*104 Icon: Campagnolo Super Record Derailleur
REVIEWS:
*20 Bike Test: Calfee Bamboo to the Alpine Lakes
*20 Test: Rotor Uno Hydraulic Shifting
*44 Bike Test: Frances All-Road on Mount  [ ... mehr Info]

Features:
*A Women’s All-Road Bike
*Firefly in Nice
*Paris-Brest-Paris: Why They Ride 1200 km
*Shop Visit: Sanomagic Mahogany Bikes
*Michael Barry; 1938-2018
*Shop Visit: Kaisei Frame Tubing
*Skill: When to Shift
*Icon: Ducheron Epanoui Lugs
Reviews:
*Bike Test: Salsa Warbird on Juniper Ridge
*First Ride: BMC Alpenchallenge AMP  [ ... mehr Info]

Features:
*Swift Compass Photo Contest
*Solstice gravel ride around Mt. Hood
*1980 René Herse with Campagnolo Super Record
*Across the Mediterranean border on a tandem
*Raymond Henry: cycling historian extraordinaire
*Franck Stephan: a new generation of French collectors
*Shop Visit: Ostrich Bags
*Fun at the 2018 BQ Un-Meeting
*Skill: Ghost  [ ... mehr Info]

Features:
10 To the Alps on a 1947 Tandem
58 Backroads of the Balkans
70 BQ Un-Meeting and Volcano High Pass Challenge
86 Across Japan’s Southern Alps in a Day
98 A Visit to Shimano
104 1984 Shimano Dura-Ace
108 Skill: Jumping a Curb
110 Icon: Daudon Toolkit
Reviews:
6 First Ride: Rawland Ulv
40 Bike Test:  [ ... mehr Info]

Features:
*Lyli Herse 1928 - 2018
*Torino - Nice Gravel Rally
*My First Mountain Bike Ride
*Factory Visit: Davidson & Kullaway
*Skill: Look Where You Go
*Icon: Wonder Light
History:
*Jo Routens
*The Evolution of ‘Allroad’ Bikes
Reviews:
*Bike Test: Caletti Monstercross
*First Ride: MASI Speciale Randonneur
*Berthoud Bar-End  [ ... mehr Info]

Eroica California
Four Days of Cascade Cyclotouring
Cyclotouring Is About Discovery
The Tour Cyclotouriste du Mont Blanc 1957
Return to the Roads of my Youth
Visiting Three of Japan’s Amazing Collections
Misao Takigawa’s Favorite Pieces
Haiku Poets Flèche
Skill: Developing a Healthy Spin
Icon: Bianchi’s  [ ... mehr Info]

The Spring 2020 edition offers a mix of engaging stories. Karen Yung helps us keep our dreams alive, with her story of a challenging bikepacking trip to the Andes of Peru – the cover shows one of her fellow adventuresses.
For our bike test, we stay closer to home. We take the Horse, an American-made modern steel bike, on a mid-winter adventure in the Cascade foothills with their  [ ... mehr Info]

FEATURES
6 Fatbiking to the Magic Bus
18 The Race to the Butter (Procuring food in occupied France)
20 Paris-Brest-Loudéac...and Loudéac-Paris
34 Jean Hoffmann: Randonneur to Racer and Back
57 The 2015 Bicycle Quarterly Un-Meeting
58 The Old Road to Houshi Onsen (cyclotouring during a typhoon)
94 Skill: Maintaining Grip on Wintry  [ ... mehr Info]

FEATURES
04 The Mountains of Heaven (Lael Wilcox/Rue Kaladyte)
45 Cyclos Montagnards
46 A Visit to Peter Weigle
62 Traveling with Peter Weigle
66 The Japanese Odyssey (Eigo Shimojo/Craig Griffith)
78 The Alta Via dei Monti Liguri (Matt Surch/Nicolas Joly)
98 Sub-Zero Cycling (Jefferson Pritcher)
102 BQ Un-Meeting 2019 (Natsuko Hirose)
110 Readers’  [ ... mehr Info]

FEATURES
6 A Visit to C. S. Hirose
23 A Hirose for a Small Rider
56 To the End of the Road: A 24-Hour Camping Trip
72 The Cyclotouring Life (France, 1950s)
80 ALAN in a Timewarp
92 Icon: Bell Wingnut
REVIEWS
16 First Ride: Hirose Mini-Velo
32 Bike Test: Specialized Diverge Carbon Di2
54 The Diverge as a Commuting Bike
64 The Diverge for Loaded  [ ... mehr Info]

FEATURES:
*29 Paris-Brest-Paris 2019
*48 Jan’s Rene Herse Randonneuse
*54 David’s Seven Evergreen All-Road Bike
*55 Ryan’s Smeltzer Thee Gifford Adventure Bike
*56 PBP is Not Only for Riders
*62 Balkan Backroads
*78 Ted King Interview
*88 Shop Visit: Cherubim
*118 Bruce Gordon: 1949-2019
*124 Project: Convert Your Fork to a  [ ... mehr Info]

- Searching mountain goats on Mount Rainier
- Racing in Communist East Germany
- Riding at night
- The Urban Bike after 7 years
- First Ride: Lynskey Urbanskey titanium 650B commuter
- Visit to Toei, Japanese constructeur
- Test: Breadwinner B-Road on the road to Monte Cristo [ ... mehr Info]

Features:
30 The Poly de Chanteloup Hillclimb Race
50 A Lap with Lyli Herse
58 Project: Make a Mudflap!
68 Skill: How to Look Back without Swerving
70 Icon: Cinelli Fork Crown
Reviews:
6 Bike Test: Calfee Adventure 650B over 8 Mountain Passes
25 Book Review: Viennese Mechanics` Bikes
62 Tests: TRP HY/RD Disc Brake, Schwalbe Superlight 650B Tube, Pacenti  [ ... mehr Info]

Features:
6 Cycling in Mexico
12 André Marcadier: From Aluminum Bicycles to Race Cars
18 Ca. 1950 Marcadier
20 Robert Lepertel (1924-2013)
22 Alex Moulton (1920-2013)
25 Ron Cooper (1932-2012)
66 Rims, Always Rims (1949)
70 Our Favorite Bikes: Resurrected 10-Speeds

Reviews:
26 Bike Tests: Volagi Liscio and Viaje
40 Test: Shimano CX75  [ ... mehr Info]

- Travel: Cycling Adventures on the Indian Subcontinent
- Obituary: Bill Hurlow, 1921-2010
- Obituary: Phil Wood, 1926-2010
- Classic Bikes: Colnago`s Small-Wheeler
- Frans Pauwels, Founding Father of Portland Bicycle Racing
- Training Advice (1939): How to Become a Bicycle Racer
- My Favorite Bike: Bob Daniel`s 1961 Ideor Professional [ ... mehr Info]

FEATURES:
*René Herse: Celebrating Eighty Years of Innovation (1938-2018)
*Buying my Alps Passhunter – Entering the Mysterious World of Custom Bicycles
*The Challenge of the Transcontinental Race
*Barra Aluminum Bike: The Mad Genius of Cyclotouring Bikes
*Firefly – Masters of Titanium
*Harvest Ride in Connecticut
*Roger Baumann,  [ ... mehr Info]

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Features:
Around Mt. Baker in One Day
Restoring a 1946 René Herse
Easter Ride in the Mexican Cordillera
A Visit to Schmidt Maschinenbau
Project: A Detachable Lower Front Fender
Skill: Stop Without a Foot Down
Icon: Giro Aerohead
Reviews:
Bike Test: Open U.P.
First Ride: Rossman 650B Randonneur
First Ride: Specialized Sequoia
Test: Specialized  [ ... mehr Info]

FEATURES
-Autumn Cyclotouring in Japan
-Rebirth of the French Technical Trials
-Cycles Victoire "Type Concours"
-Cyfac "Concours de Machines"
-1951 René Herse Randonneuse
-John Fletcher and His 1937 Urago
-A Mid-Winter Odyssey from San Diego to Florida
-Icon: Radios No. 16 Headlight
REVIEWS
-First Ride:  [ ... mehr Info]