Bikes: Looking Forward and Looking Back

This is just a quick post to share two bike related gifts from the Interweb.

First, this story about a Chinese man who is reinventing the bicycle wheel. I'm not sure if it will take off, but I'd love to try one.

Picture courtesy of www.china.org.cn where you'll find a few more views.

Second, this website for Pashley Cycles of Stratford-upon-Avon, England where they hand build a variety of classic bikes.

Here's the Roadster 26 which seems a practical choice and would, I'm sure, make just about any ride more fun:
But, if I were buying, it would be hard to resist the Roadster Sovereign, "A whale amongst minnows."