Leulliot mass-versus-height for cyclists
After reading Cozy Beehive's review of a recent article, and having read editor/primary contributor Jan Heine's absolutely excellent The Competition Bicycle , I knew I had to subscribe to Bicycle Quarterly . So I jumped straight in: I ordered the past year's worth of back-issues and committed to a 2-year subscription. After having become acclimated to the usual commercial touchy-feely stuff which is the staple of most cycling publications, the analytic approach taken by Bicycle Quarterly is refreshing. Sure, any sort of analysis is going to be flawed in some way, but at least there's something with substance there to bite into. Plenty of stuff for blog posts. First I checked out the Summer 2010 copy, since this is where the article analyzed by Cozy Beehive was printed. But there's a lot more there than just the analysis of Tour de France speeds. A real gem was a translation of an article from a 1939 Vélo , by Jean Leulliot: How to Become a Bicycle Racer...