Alex Moulton’s memoirs have recently been published by Rolls Royce Heritage.
“In this new book, Dr. Alex Moulton recounts, in his own words, his lifetime in engineering. The whole story – from building steam cars as a teenager, and working under Roy Fedden at Bristol Aeroplane, through the development of rubber suspension systems that led to collaboration with BMC, Dunlop and Sir Alec Issigonis in the creation of Hydrolastic and Hydragas, to the revolutionary Moulton bicycle that, together with the Mini, became an icon of the swinging sixties – is told in Dr. Moulton’s characteristic direct style.”
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Well not really bike related, but worth mentioning because Scott Schuman play a big role in my everyday past time on internet world. A major big influence in fashion world. I had been following The Sartorialist blog for sometime now. Always great pictures of well dressed people.
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Cog Magazine, issue #6
So I finally got my happy hands on a copy of COG Magazine, issue number 6. Most of you have become familiar with this magazine lately, it is one of the few magazines that are actually printed on paper dedicated to this Fixed Gear Culture. Pushbike Shop had blogged that COG magazine just arrived at their shop, so without hesitation I rushed out from work trying to get to the shop before their gates slam closed at 7pm sharp. I went in the shop and saw Ian and Sarah getting ready to leave for their weekely ride and promised I would be quick. They were kind enough to let me grab a couple; one for me and another one for me.
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Vic McDaniel & Ray Francisco, 1909
What follows is a book report about Two Wheels North, the tale of a month long, 1000-mile bicycling trip in 1909 completed by two friends who just got out of highschool.
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It’s officially released- Pedal Speed # 2 magazine from Japan. I must admit that I had no idea how long it would take the publisher to release this magazine, but it seems the Japanese can do it in a very short period of time.
If you remember, around mid April, I was running around with my friends Tak and Yasu taking photographs for the magazine. They had called me up and asked if i could help set up a photo shoot/interviews with bike people in San Francisco. All of this happened in 24 hours from the first minute from the time they arrived. I gave Yasu a bike with basket and we rolled out, non-stop, to meet tons of people, we even hit Critical Mass. I was very thrilled with the amount of coverage we got in a such a sort period of time.
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Franceso Moser is one of our sport’s “living legends”, as proven now by countless victories across many niches of the cycling world as well as helping bicycle-technology improve throughout the course of history. During Moser’s reign, he made several attempts on Merckx’s famed Hour Record and this book charts his course through those attempts. The book itself is written by Moser’s coach and deals primarily with the science behind creating a champion.
Brief history on the Hour Record: a single man mounts his bike and attempts to ride faster and for a longer distance over the course of 60 short but sweating seconds. In the world of bicycling, this event is one of the most pure and unabashed - just a man riding a bicycle for a full hour on a nicely banked velodrome. Merckx made the event famous in the 70s by shattering all prior records by entire kilometers and whole minutes (rather than the mere fractions of seconds that most hope to overcome.) For the next few decades, numerous people would threaten Merckx’s record but no one would come close to breaking it — except Moser.
