When I was an Industrial Design student I designed a hand held mobile phone no bigger than, say, a Nokia N97. This was 198cough and I was marked down severely because, according to the tutor, mobile phone technology would never be small enough to fit inside such a small unit. And later, inspired by the groundbreaking work being done by folks in the world of Human Powered Vehicles, I designed a handlebar mounted fairing-cum-windscreen for a bicycle I was marked down because there wasn’t and probably never would be any demand for such a product.
I’m not bitter.
But it gave me a great deal of pleasure to buy one of these here Yepp windscreens >>>
… from David Hembrow’s Dutch Bike Bits. To keep the wind and rain off my little Rufus. I shall let you know how it functions in a future report. My only gripe so far is that the bracket which attaches it to the handlebar stem is such an enormous great lump (designed as it is to carry a Yepp child seat with, presumably, a child in it) that I fear it may encroach on the crotchal area of our little boy. We shall see. Reluctant to take a hacksaw to it just yet…
And this:
For the same bike. It’s lush, and now that every Beemexer on the planet is running compact – it’s now obselete! And hence very cheap! Which is nice.. To replace the (note: reversed to share the wear) ancient second-hand and knackered Profile ring which is on it at the mo.
