Dec66
A gentlemanly pootler, these days
- Location
- West Wickham
I believe Nick Davies refers to this kind of thing as "churnalism".I think it's probably a recycled press release from the Design Museum's current exhibition, so maybe you should take it up with them?
Surely you'd need to grease it tooThe fold-up helmet would be useful for my suggestion.
If you read the article properly, you'll see he isn't saying the fixed wheel was invented in the 1990s, rather that it found an unlikely new niche. I've no idea whether that's true or not, but it sounds plausible to me.I think the fixed wheel bicycle may possibly pre-date the 1990s and even the 1890s.
Either that or Claud Butler were way ahead of the game with the 1935 fixed wheel bike I owned for a while!
I think the key to the ridicule is the size of the delta between the title, and the actual impact on cycling on most of the 12 things listed.If you read the article properly, you'll see he isn't saying the fixed wheel was invented in the 1990s, rather that it found an unlikely new niche. I've no idea whether that's true or not, but it sounds plausible to me.
As for the Eddy Merckx one, I'd be very surprised if he didn't have a new handlebar designed for his hour attempt, and that could be the truth hiding behind the inaccuracies in this case.
In general I think you're all being a bit quick to ridicule what is clearly meant to be a pro-cycling article.
As for the Eddy Merckx one, I'd be very surprised if he didn't have a new handlebar designed for his hour attempt, and that could be the truth hiding behind the inaccuracies in this case.
In general I think you're all being a bit quick to ridicule what is clearly meant to be a pro-cycling article.