Fun Magazines You May Have Missed

Sometimes there is a whole section of magazines that you have always missed somehow.  Or maybe you just didn't expect it.

Dirt Rag #154, while having the expected articles of Where to Ride in New Zealand, also writes about access in Colorado, the relationship between bike trails, wilderness, and the roadless rule.  Even though it was right on the cover, I almost missed one called "America's First Mountain Bikers".  You may have heard about the 10th Cavalry regiment, but I was completely unfamiliar with the 25th Infantry Bicycle Corps, a unit African-American soldiers based in Missoula who did a demonstration bike ride in 1897  from Missoula to St Louis, Missouri.  (Further reading here and here)

Or you can find Prehistoric Times in our science and natural history section.  A fun mix of paleontology, museum info, toys, art and models.  This issue has James Gurney (Dinotopia), and article about the Chicago Field Museum, and Top Paleo Events of 2010.

And if you are looking for something more hip, there is the oversize The Last Magazine (pop culture).  The sixth issue, in its own non-standard format.

Bicycles and the other Harper's

Alas! I was linking to a website for this post, but the website is acting goofy this weekend, so you will just get a different version of the info.

Checking out Bicycle Benefits to order more stickers for you, noticed that they are looking for pictures of real people in real winter bicycling gear, ran across West Seattle blogger bikejuju who was highlighting photographs from the March 1963 Harper's Bazaar, showing two bicyclists watching a high fashion model prisoned in a floating bubble.

Harper's Bazaar is related to Harper's magazine.  It was started by publishing house Harper & Brothers a few years later in 1867,  a fashion magazine for the ladies.  It has had a long and lively history including the famous pizazz years of Diana Vreeland.   And now has many international sister publications.  We have the UK and the Australian Harper's Bazaar (shown above) as well as the US edition.

While Harper's Bazaar may have used bicyclist to highlight spring couture, Bicycle Times is a young magazine, and rather like Good Old Boat (not about luxury yachts), Bicycle Times is a magazine about city transportation bicycling for the rest of us.  And to circle around, has an article about winter bicycling gear.

So layer on up, and send Bicycle Benefits your Seattle winter bicycling picture.