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Issue 54 June/July 2006
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ISSN 1460-0587 . tel 01963 351649 . fax 01963 351649 email atob@onetel.com . web www.atob.org.uk Editors David & Jane Henshaw . Illustrations Helen Whyte, John McNaught,Tim Pestridge Contributors Philip Hammerslough, David Henshaw, Peter Henshaw, Jon Lucas, Richard Peace, Bob Spurgeon Printers Wincanton Print Co Ltd . Next deadline 25th July 2006

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hanks to everyone who made a gift subscription or a suggestion as to where we could send a gift subscription... Welcome to David Cameron MP, Leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition, Zac Goldsmith, the House of Commons Librarian (good one that), Jonathan Porritt, Friends of the Earth, Transport for London,Weymouth College Library,Time’s Up in New York, and many individuals. Do keep ‘em coming - gift subs cost £10 in the UK and £14 overseas, and we pay the rest. And a big thank you to everyone who has subscribed in the last year.We’ve grown by 5% since May 2005 which doesn’t sound much, but it brings our circulation to 2,600.OK, not quite up with The Sun, but good in specialist magazine terms. And you’ll notice from the leaflet in this issue that we’ve launched a second title,‘Miniature Railway’, to be produced three times a year, and thus slot in between alternate issues of A to B. Just to make life really complicated, we’re also moving house and town, to Dorchester in Dorset. So if A to B 55 is late, don’t panic! We will be somewhere between A and B.

Contents
A to B L e t t e r s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Bo o k R ev i ew : S ad dl e d a t S e a . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 3 Ear to the Gro u n d : The Mole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 5 A to B N ew s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 0 Le t t e r f ro m A m e r i c a : O ne -S p e e d Wo n d e r . . . . . 2 2 Te s t e d : B i c y c l e P um ps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3 Te s t e d : I s l a b i ke s Lu at h 26 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 8 Te s t e d : B ro mp t on B a c k - p a c k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 0 Te s t e d : Saddlebags and Saddle Cov e r . . . . . . . . . .3 4 Te c h n o l o g y : H u b G ea r s Pa r t 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 5 Lo n g Te rm Te s t : E ze e To rq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 9 Te c h n o l o g y : L a f re e Ba t t e r y U pg ra d e s . . . . . . . . 4 1 Tr ave l : R o un d B r i t ai n by Fe r r y . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4 A to B S m a l l s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 8
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