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In A to B 29:
- Long-term Test: Birdy Red
(A to B APPROVED) - The Trial: Dahon Roo EL
(A to B APPROVED) - The Trial: Bluebird 5-in-1 Trailer
(A to B FAIL)
- The Trial: Brompton 6-spd
(A to B FAIL)
April 2002. It’s clearly time you met Tim Pestridge. Tim came to us through the motorcycle world and was an instinctive A to B man. We had a great working relationship. I could email Tim with a vague idea of what I wanted and back would come a beautifully rendered image, all correctly coloured, sized and optimised. But most importantly, they were funny, hard-hitting and economically-drawn. Tim was brilliant, and the cover of A to B 29 was classic Pestridge. The cave-man got us in some hot-water, although I’m not sure what the offence actually was?
One day Tim just stopped doing illustration, and these day’s he’s a great photographer and film man, but no drawings as far as we know. Where does genius flow from, eh?
A to B 29 was a decently interesting magazine. A first really serious look at the (then brand new) Brompton 6-spd, an equally interesting test of the electric Dahon Roo EL, powered by the SRAM Sparc system, which failed commercially after quite a short production life. There’s no justice. And finally to the Bluebird. Chinese products like this wiped out the promising western bike trailer industry. They were ludicrously cheap, outrageously heavy, hard to haul, and generally horrible. A great shame.
DAVID HENSHAW
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