tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24415034.post114944604598212516..comments2024-03-18T10:19:55.782-04:00Comments on The Velo ORANGE Blog: The Dancing ChainVelo Orangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02835615331417822722noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24415034.post-1149656454874257842006-06-07T01:00:00.000-04:002006-06-07T01:00:00.000-04:00Oddly enough I just finished reading this book on ...Oddly enough I just finished reading this book on Saturday evening and I enjoyed it a lot too. As you say, the historical information is as valuable as the technical stuff. The editing could be a bit sharper; with contributions from several authors and new material added for the second edition, the same thing sometimes gets said two or three times, and occasionally a chapter seems to start over in the middle. But clearly it's a labor of love much more than a major commercial project, and all the good stuff makes it easy to look past that.<BR/><BR/>I've read a few other good histories of cycling, such as Robert Smith's <I>A Social History of the Bicycle</I> and Jim McGurn's <I>On Your Bicycle</I>, so I had some idea of what went on in the early days. Chris, the recent brouhaha over your bag design doesn't seem like a biggie compared to some of the commercial wars that went on, or even compared to the feud that Berto recounts between Panel and Raimond over what would appear on the monument to Velocio!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com