Effendi Sahib
Effendi Sahib Ben Zaskar
das eigene Klientel für etwas minderbemittelt zu halten ist allerdings gängige Praxis und erspart wertvolle Minuten Recherchearbeit. Leser wie Autor bleiben so die wirklich interessanten Dinge vorenthalten.
...The French Velo Cross Club Parisien (VCCP) was comprised of about twenty young bicyclists from the outskirts of Paris who between 1951 and 1956 developed a sport that was remarkably akin to present-day mountain biking...These riders juiced their French 650-B mainstay bikes with an extraordinary degree of technical sophistication. Almost all their bikes had suspension forks, most of which were adopted from mopeds; one of the suspension forks was made by a VCCP member. Frame gusseting, handlebar-mounted derailleur shifting, and improved braking were common to most of their bikes.....The VCCP riders, put off by the tediousness of cyclo-cross racing, were raring to go for the big air and unobstructed riding that are hallmarks of todays mountain bike racing. Even though VCCP races were witnessed by many during breaks at Parisien moto-cross races, their well-documented activity was lost in the creases of time and only surfaced again this past year in the French mountain bike magazine VTT...A study of the remarkable photo collection of VCCP riding is a must for any MTB aficionado. The likes of a VCCP should really come as no surprise considering Frances long love affair with bicycling. Leave it to the French!
Joe Breeze
Hab nie behauptet die Leser für minderbemittelt zu halten. Es macht allerdings einen Unterschied, ob man für eine Fachzeitschrift oder eine allgemeine Wochenzeitung (Sparte "Zeitgeist & Medien") schreibt.
Den (tatsächlich oft vergessenen) Hintergrund mit der VCCPs kenne ich, hätte jedoch Rahmen und Inhalt verwässert und m.M.n. eher zur Thematik Cyclocross und BMX gepaßt, die ich ja auch geflissentlich ignoriert habe.
Mein Artikel mußte ohnehin schon stark und behutsam gekürzt werden, damit der Sinn nicht verlorengeht.