On holiday My wife and I are taking 6-months-old Miles for his first cycling holiday. See you in a week.

In 1985, when Andrew Ritchie was perfecting the Mark 2 Brompton, and thus showing that a folding bicycle could deliver a good ride (read more in the Brompton Bicycle Book), a few kilometres away, Mark Sanders was putting the final touches to his Master Thesis at the Royal College of Arts and introducing another British folding bike icon, the Strida. Mark has now uploaded his thesis and an early business plan online. They both provide a fascinating read. Via Core77

Norman Jay’s favourite wheels back in production. BBC and all the British media: “The Chopper was just the kind of bike that parents thought unsuitable, and certainly one had to be supple when swinging a leg over the raised metal hoop at the back of the seat to ensure future fertility was not jeopardised.” The other threat to tender regions has been however moved: “The crossbar gear changer that gave the original riders a sense of being in US teen rebel movies such as Easy [...]