On Apr 11, 11:01 am, George Schick bhim...@gmail.com wrote:
An item of curiosity: the referenced
article from BQ, upon which the calculator is based, has a paragraph
that credits Frank Berto for measuring the tire drops of various tire
sizes in order to come to his 15% conclusions. Does
I have been thinking about offering bound back issues, but a) I am way
too busy to organize that and b) it would make some people wait for
the bound issues, instead of subscribing. The only way I can publish
Bicycle Quarterly (and offer back issues) is by having subscribers.
They pay for the
Jan: would it be possible to develop an app that calculated recommended
tire pressure based on weight tire size similar to the chart you
previously ran? That would be a wonderful tool to have on the website.
The chart is available online (see our samples page)...
My suggestion would be that BQ articles on new bikes and
equipment have an associated online archive of color photos.
The online full-color archives already exists:
http://www.vintagebicyclepress.com/biketests.html (test bikes)
and
http://www.vintagebicyclepress.com/image-archive.html
Color would be nice, but it's terribly expensive. We offer color in
our books, which can be sold over a longer period of time, and thus
amortize the cost. We also have color photos of almost all bikes
featured in BQ at
http://www.vintagebicyclepress.com/image-archive.html
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