4-Pack Bicycle Quarterly Past Editions

We’ve assembled these 4-packs of Bicycle Quarterly back editions, so you can read up on a particular topic. Of course, each Bicycle Quarterly includes many other interesting articles as well to give you many hours of reading enjoyment. Below is a list of the editions included with each pack.

Click on a 4-pack title below to add it to your cart.

You can also select any 4 magazines from the drop-down menus below to create your own 4-pack.

Our Best Rides:

• BQ 45 (The Volcano High Pass Super Randonnée 600 km)
• BQ 47 (The search for the Secret Passes)
• BQ 53 (To the end of the road on Carbon Glacier)
• BQ 55 (Cyclotouring the crest of the Cascades from Mount Rainier to Portland)

Japan Cyclotouring:

• BQ 51 (Touring Hokkaido; Nihon Alps 600 km)
• BQ 57 (Autumn Cyclotouring in Japan)
• BQ 58 (Peninsula Cyclotouring; Otaki 100 km Mountain Bike Race)
• BQ 60 (Peter Weigle Goes to Japan; Natsuko’s First Passhunt)

15th Anniversary Editions:

• BQ 61 (Peter Weigle and the Concours de Machines)
• BQ 62 (Riding a 1947 Rene Herse tandem in the Alps)
• BQ 63 (Lyli Herse, Winter Mountain Pass Adventure)
• BQ 64 (Japanese Passhunters, Mexico’s Copper Canyon)

Titanium Bike Tests:

• BQ 58 (Moots Routt and the toughest mountain bike race in Japan)
• BQ 57 (Litespeed Gravel Bike on the search for the “Lost Pass”)
• BQ 56 (Firefly titanium Enduro Allroad on the High Road to Mexico City)
• BQ 51 (Jeff Jones on a Winter bikepacking adventure)

 Tire Performance:

• BQ 43 (Summary of all BQ research on tire performance)
• BQ 17 (Our ground-breaking roll-down tests)
• BQ 36 (Do larger wheels roll faster over bumps?)
• BQ 58 (Performance of ultra-wide tires up to 54 mm)

Bike Handling:

• BQ 11 (Front End Geometry for Different Speeds, Loads and Tire Sizes)
• BQ 31 (Wheel Size and Bicycle Handling)
• BQ 38 (An Overview of Frame Geometry)
• BQ 62 (Wheel Size, Tire Width and Handling)

Frame Stiffness and Planing:

• BQ 24 (Double-blind frame stiffness experiment)
• BQ 28 (More frame stiffness experiments with power meters)
• BQ 35 (Measuring frame stiffness and the balance of the frame)
• BQ 23 (Measuring fork blade flex)

General Bike Performance:

• BQ 21 (Wind-tunnel testing of tires, fenders, bags, clothes, position)
• BQ 41 (Generator hub performance test)
• BQ 29 (Suspension losses quantified)
• BQ 22 (PBP equipment survey: What worked and what didn’t)

Classic Builders 1:

• BQ 1 (Alex Singer)
• BQ 28 (Jack Taylor)
• BQ 42 (Speedwall, Pioneer of Titanium Frames)
• BQ 17 (Reyhand)
• Note: Overlap with Tire Performance and Frame Flex packs.

Classic Builders 2:

• BQ 30 (Paul Charrel)
• BQ 24 (Nicola Barra)
• BQ 20 (Hetchins)
• BQ 21 (TA)
• Note: Overlap with Frame Stiffness and General Performance packs.

Tandems:

• BQ 7 (Tandem Special Issue)
• BQ 5 (Paris-Brest-Paris 2005 on 1946 René Herse tandem)
• BQ 36 (Fastest tandem in PBP 1956: history and restoration)
• BQ 27 (The first diagonal, on a tandem, 1930)
• Note: Overlap with Tire Performance Pack

History of Randonneuring: 

• BQ 31 (Part 1: Vélocio, the Audax and Paris-Brest-Paris)
• BQ 33 (Part 2: 1930s — Diagonals and the German Occupation)
• BQ 35 (Part 3: Post-War Boom, 1950s Decline and the End of Competition)
• BQ 38 (Part 4: Cyclosportifs, American Randonneurs, and the Future)

Japanese Builders: 

• BQ 48 (Level, Iribe, Panaracer)
• BQ 50 (Nitto)
• BQ 52 (TOEI)
• BQ 53 (C. S. Hirose)

Build your own 4-Pack by selecting editions below: