Edward Dolan wrote:
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> RCN has always had typos all over the place from the beginning.
Typos are bad enough, but we're talking a mental condition here: a typo
is like misreading a word on occasion; this
it's/its-there/their-bikes/bike's confusion is akin to dyslexia!
> It is more a
> technical type of magazine than a literary type of magazine. It has always
> needed a good editor.
Yeah, it should be outsourced to India! They have a very active HPV
community over there, what with all the pedicabs and rickshaws.
> Mr. Sherman and I could do wonders for it, but we are
> not available.
A pity the wider 'bent community is deprived of your talents...perhaps
it's time to make the leap from ARBR to RCN, O Grate One?
> The main trouble with RCN is that it is a one man operation
> from beginning to end. You and I would also make many of the same mistakes
> if we were doing it all on our own like Robert Bryant is.
Uh, no. Not me. I troll usenet in my spare time and I still manage to
follow MLA guidelines!
> However, forget all of that and just go for the information which is always
> very solid.
If I "forgot" I'd wind up writing like that, too! It's insidious how
stuff like that creep into your subconscious and become habits in no
time. And I was rather distressed to learn that he'd no experience
with hydraulic disc brakes beyond the usual homelies, and that he
didn't know Nazca is able to use bar-end shifters with SRAM DualDrive
(as Hostel Shoppe is able to as well now, apparently, after some
research into the matter as a result of my question to them).
> It is the only publication that I am aware of that is not in
> the hands of the sellers and manufacturers of recumbents. Hence, it is
> priceless for that reason alone.
Don't you mean "in the *pockets* of the sellers"...?
I'm not so sure about that. He's probably rather more critical than
other sources (heh, all four of 'em), but not by a whole lot.
And we definitely need to see more of Amy Bryant. I don't care if she
didn't review the article! Just stick her on a bike. Probably give
the readership a slight spike (ahem). It's one thing to have pictures
of metal and hardware, but quite another to have all these old fogies
from cover to cover!
> Regards,
>
> Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
> aka
> Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota