Rouleur

I have got around to the cycling magazine first noticed at reference 1, some weeks ago now. A rather arty production printed on Amadeus Silk, Amber Graphic and UPM fine papers supplied by the people at reference 3, from which the snap above is taken. Nothing yet about the font or fount.

My No.101 containing 144 pages might date from 2021 - but, oddly for a magazine, they seem oddly coy about dates. The guest editor for this women's number is one Orla Chennaoui, 40+ Northern Irish television journalist and former all-Ireland triple jump champion. 

A mixture of advertisements for bicycles and parts of bicycles, arty shots of lady cyclists and articles about lady cyclists.

From the former I learn that a fancy off-road frame from Cannondale features a front fork with only one prong, which seems a bit odd from an engineering point of view. That Campagnolo sell high end cork screws as well as gears. Also a bit odd in that one might think that young men would prefer to show of their muscles by pulling corks the old fashioned way, like pulling teeth, rather than using one of these wimps' contraptions.

While among the collaborators for this number, we have one Vittoria Bussi, at home at reference 5. Apparently an Oxford PhD in mathematics, a champion cyclist and an entrepreneur. Perhaps you are going to be a bit unusual if you are a world expert on derived symplectic structures in generalized Donaldson–Thomas theory and categorification. Those with a penchant for derived symplectic structures might care to peek at reference 7, abstracted above. The same Yau as I brushed across more than ten years ago and noticed at reference 8. Scary how many seriously clever people there are out there.

I was quite surprised how many of the shots of lady cyclists in the magazine were taken on exercise machines, that is to say bicycles rigged up so that you could use them indoors. Not something that has ever appealed to me. Even less after my brief encounter with a Peleton in John Lews in Oxford Street.

I close with another Italian lady, this one a wannabee astronaut turned bicycle wheel engineer, one Luisa Grappone who now works for Hunt Wheels in Sussex, to be found at reference 9. Who would have thought that you bother with wind tunnels when you are designing a bicycle wheel? Perhaps you expect wind tunnels when you are paying getting on for £1,000 for two at bogof rates.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2023/09/more-schubert.html.

Reference 2: https://www.rouleur.cc/.

Reference 3: https://denmaur.com/.

Reference 4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orla_Chennaoui.

Reference 5: https://vittoriabussi.it/.

Reference 6: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vittoria_Bussi.

Reference 7: https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/joyce/theses/BussiDPhil.pdf.

Reference 8: https://pumpkinstrokemarrow.blogspot.com/search?q=yau. I still have the book, although I can remember very little about it - beyond the author having a passion for mathematics of a quite different order from my own.

Reference 9: https://www.huntbikewheels.com/.