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20 Years Ago

February 2003: 116 pages, $3.99

houghts about the Pro Touring movement—for and against—was a theme throughout the issue, beginning with Editor-in-Chief David Freiburger’s assertion that “Pro Touring is as bad as Pro Street, if not worse,” in his Starting Line column. (He did title the column, “Alienating Half the Readers in the First Sentence.”) Later in the issue he wrote a history of the Pro Street phenomenon and wondered if

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