Here’s a review of an interesting continuous variable transmission for bikes. While the whole idea is cool, I was particularly impressed by the handlebar indicator. In easy ‘gears’ the display shows a hill, while in harder gears the line flattens out. A quick look at the picture shows that it’s a very simple mechanism used, but provides much better feedback than a series of numbers (one’s low, but is low easy or hard?)

This sounds like an urban myth, but it’s true;

Tony Adams was arrested, and now faces a £120 fine, for riding ‘furiously’, an offence under the 1847 Town Police Clauses Act, at 25 mph in Sidney Street, a 30 mph zone, in the middle of the night

I’m not a big fan of adverts, but Nike ones are often worth watching. Sometimes it’s because of their artistic production, but often just because they can inspire you to work harder, if only for an hour. I think we can all use such a lift from time to time (what else would explain those posters with kittens hanging from clothes lines?) Even Nike’s corporate tag line – Just Do It – is capable of raising your spirits, if you can get past the cliche it has become (and forget about whatever harm you may feel the company itself does).

Perhaps my favourite is this Lance Armstrong response to the many accusations about drug abuse over his career:

I hate to think what I would have to have done to be inspired to cycle like this