Bike Workshop - 1994 Annual Review 300 Pages Full Color

Tsundere said:
Amazing, like finding a porn stash in the bushes when you're 13 (before the internet robbed young men of that rare joy).
Is 94 the earliest year?
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Been looking around this morning over a coffee. From what I gather, the early 90's was called Bike Markt, then at 1994 was called Bike Workshop. So the link above is the first issue of Bike Workshop.

Additionally, these magazines did a massive massive annual "parts-only catalog" that were all over 300 pages.

There are also other members besides those in this thread, who have shown their massive stacks of past issues on other, German-based websites like Mountain Bike News for example. Would be sweet if someone digitized their stuff.
 
Almost true ...

The Bike Market is an overview of full bikes and models.

The Bike Workshop is the catalogue and almanac of parts and maintainance reports & tipps.

The Bike Market started in 1993. The Bike Workshop started in 1994.

Wait, Ill post a pic of the typical Bike Market content:

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MuchAlohaNui said:
My dude,

You and @Tomato are holding old bibles basically. Have you thought about digitizing your collection for the enrichment of the world? Or maybe you and @FluffyChicken can talk to one-another about curation processes and scanners vs. digital photography? Really...these would be so killer if they were pdf's.

If you are anywhere remotely close to a University they have processes & and equipment (and curation/archivist staff) there that will either help you do it for free, or do it for a fraction of the cost.

You gotta get those digitized. 🤙
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I wouldn't collaborate with me, for these catalogues I'd slice the binder off and feed it into the printer and let it auto scan them.
I did similar to that for the Shimano, Suntour etc for mine when I could scan A3 easily. When I had to do them page by page by page as the auto feed broke, one Shimano (1996 I think) was enough to kill me with boredom. I am now limited to a A4 manual scanner and life is slow.
Especially as I then crop and align each page later on and name it so it's easy to find. Also colour correct so it looks similar on my screen (which has a cert) to the page itself. I also never PDF them, I like to open the folder and see all the picture images and let other do as they wish with them.

I don't put a price on catalogues, I'm here for the archiving and history, not the value of the paper on the chance someone wishes to buy.

Anyway, in a week or so I'll remove the unimportant chatter from the thread and take it back to the magazine talk itself. (like I do with most)
 
I like the idea cutting off the binder and sacrificing one print copy for the betterment of whoever wants the resulting pdf. I didn't think people did that and preservation of the original was kept in mind. I have a large HP color laser jet here that will scan 300 dpi ADF/ 1200 dpi on the plate; both with ok color bit depth and may give it a go and see what happens with some test magazines.

I disagree with you regarding file type. The problem with jpg is that everyone's computer will display the data somewhat differently from yours. As being the curator of the master document the curator will have the best resolution and quality of that jpg on their personal computer, but outside that computer the quality begins vary and degrades the moment the file is transfered and uploaded to a server whether done with a USB stick or FTP or email. The jpg gets even worse in quality as new trunks form off the original. This can be seen by using TinEye to backward image search a common jpg to then look at the query results. The variance is pretty amazing.

pdf is an exact clone of the master scan and the quality is only limited by the hardware, settings and color management the archivist originally used. Further, pdf's are transferable without data loss whether email, FTP or otherwise. Lastly, pdfs are scalable so what I see on a tiny smart phone is what I will see on a Sony Bravia TV.

Though, the reason for the file selection dictates, so I understand what you're getting at. I look at these massive Bike Workshop mags as something that must be a pdf. I'm just blabbing though and you very well likely already know this. Interesting to talk about nonetheless.
 
I do have all Bike Workshops and Bike Markt
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and meanwhile some other stuff from other countries.

More details to what was available earlier are in this thread in the German Forum
https://www.mtb-news.de/forum/t/nac...ke-markt-workshop-accessory-guide-etc.881673/
The 1994 issue at was uploaded from the puplishing house Delius Klasing on their own as a promo, they are still doing the Bike Magazin in German today.

They are a bit concerned about copyright, as especially for the articles the publishing rights for the pictures are still at the photographer and not at the publishing house.
There was the idea also in the German forum to scan old stuff and make it available, where immediately some feedback from the puplishing house was shared that this is not allowed and they may intervene legally.
So guys, be carefully in publishing any fully scans somewhere, in worst case you get post from their lawyers.

For the 1994-one I came across this website
https://vebuka.com/print/100310084430-0e8241eb75e44575a2b8606dd24714f0/BIKE_WORKSHOP_1994where all pages are available as pictures too. Save page get's a local copy at your computer.

For 1999 there is also one issue with all Tests from that year from MountainBike Magazin online
https://issuu.com/velotech/docs/mountain_bike_extra_1000_tests_1999
MB Action had also similar parts buying guides, some pictures here
https://www.flickr.com/photos/88469219@N05/sets/72157632597567380/
 
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