[Trevor]

You guys are old hat !

Over fifty years ago I designed a racing bike to fit my size and style of riding and had it custom built by a local bicycle builder. Molly tubing, cut away custom lugs and a work of art. It was the done thing back then if you were a serious racing cyclist.

My son has a state of the art Alloy framed fully sprung mountain bike with mega speed gears, which he uses regularly for commuting in preference to his Subaru. We have had many discussions on frame costruction and design. There have been no changes in the basics but there have been vast improvements in respect everything attached to the basic frame.

Now if auto engineers could get down to basics and equal the design excellence of the modern bicycle, we could have truly great cars. A cyclist has to pay for poor design with hard labour and is not inclined to accept rubbish. Not so the poofter in the driving seat who accepts what the PR brigade sell him.