More Bikes, and a Word on Sweden

Matt Chester has a nice little overview of his design philosophy. Most notable are some of the pics he unearthed of the early days of the TdF. The pic below is just plain awesome:

Fixed gears. Dirt road. Self-sufficient.

Also, the Rally Sweden started today. There was concern that there wouldn’t be enough snow, turning the typically fast bobsled course-like stages into tyre-eating gravel, but heavy snowfall over the past two days have helped conditions. Currently, Petter Solberg leads (after SS6) Marcus Gronholm and Sebastien Loeb. The standings are tight at the moment, with only 12 seconds separating the three. The biggest surprise so far has been Gigi Galli, who is only 2 seconds behind Loeb. The gaps begin to grow after Galli, with Francois Duval and Markko Martin roughly 45 adrift of the leaders. More to come….