More Missing Facts and some Technical Solutions

Are you craving the memory of a better time, where bikes were direct drive and dangerous, with a massive wheel and a little one? I'm talking, of course, of penny-farthings, which have undergone a bit of a hipster revival. However it's been given a bit of a modern twist by chemicals company, BASF, who have created a version in plastic with a very now addition of an electronic drive.

It's designed to highlight a wide range of plastics that the company produces, and shows the possibilities of different materials in bike manufacturing.

Following my attack yesterday on cycling journalism there was more hope in the shape of a profile of Mark Cavendish in the Telegraph. It's a fairly interesting look into Cav's head as he describes the way it works and is trained with puzzles, to ensure he retains his photographic memory of the latter sections of a stage which can help him manoeuvre into position to sprint to victory. For me it was going well, until the journalist suggested the threat to Cav's dominance was coming from new, younger sprinters like Andrei Greipel. That's Greipel who, as any internet search will tell you, is about three years older than Mark, and who is on the same team as him, so strongly unlikely to be racing him just now. It's just a shame that the popularity of cycling is meaning that sloppy journalism is being allowed, with out a few quick checks. Noone would stand for this in a football report or profile, would they?

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