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A comment on The Mystery of Tom Pritchard’s Bike.

Re:The Mystery of Tom Pritchard’s Bike by TheGrassyKnoll on Sunday September 20, 2020 @08:24AM (#24533597)
> "He said he was trying to get the attention of a beautiful young woman who was a serious cyclist, and he couldn’t just ride up on a Schwinn Varsity."

So, I had an orange Schwinn Varsity when I was in jr. high school. (40 pounds of steel baby). Then one year, one of my friends got a 20-something pound Nishiki. What a revelation that was; the feeling of efficiency was just incredible.

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Re:The Mystery of Tom Pritchard’s Bike by Damogran6 on Sunday September 20, 2020 @09:56AM (#24534066)
When I was in college, I listed after the Bridgestone MB-0....until they got in a Nishiki Alien.

That thing was mind bogglingly different...I looked it up earlier in the year and...it's not so mind boggling different anymore.http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/download/file.php?id=230276

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