Alternative Therapy II

I am reading this book, exercising my mind. Its an alternative to actual riding, something I first tried over two years ago.

Its rather good, if you're a bike geek or admire the pursuit of perfection.

As an example, Chris King manufactures bike headsets to perfection. Penn writes:

'I had been drawn to Chris King by the elegance and reliability of their components. I'd half expected to visit a filthy machine shop full of menacing noise and monosyllabic men sucking sweet tea through the gaps in their teeth - a kind of workplace that James Moore might have recognised. I'd imagined standing in front of a big man in a blue boiler suit with a ZZ Top beard; me saying 'are you Chris King?' and him saying 'so who wants to know?' Instead I was sitting beside a prepossessing woman in a modern cafe eating Ceasar salad, discussing enlightened pro-cycling policies.'