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100 Years of Bicycle Component and Accessory Design: Authentic Reprint Edition of The Data Book | 
 enlarge | Author: Noguchi-san
Creator: Fumiyo Noguchi
Publisher: Van der Plas
Category: Book
List Price: $39.95
Buy New: $37.49
You Save: $2.46 (6%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 717477
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Reprint
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 216
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 6.9 x 0.9
ISBN: 1892495015
EAN: 9781892495013
ASIN: 1892495015
Publication Date: April 2000
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: Brand New. Delivery is usually 5 - 8 working days from order, International is by Royal Mail Airmail
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Book Description
This authentic reprint edition of a book first published in Japan in 1983 is essentially a collection of illustrations from the first 100 years of bicycle history. With over 1,200 drawings, this book has been an inspiration for the design of "new" components and accessories as much as it is of interest to any keen cyclist.
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For obsessive bike collectors, mechanics, or framebuilders. May 24, 1999
23 out of 25 found this review helpful
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 40's to the 60's. 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 it's 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? 40's and 50's. What can I say; no text and drawings only, and it has something to interest every cyclist.
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