One Sunday morning in the late 1940s while while we were forming up to start a 25-mile club race, I noticed a fellow racer's brake levers. They were the first example I'd ever seen of what we now know as, "drillium." To me they seemed silly and probably dangerous. "How much weight do you figure you're saving with those?" I asked.
"Gee, I have no idea. Why?" he replied.
"Oh I don't know," I said, "But I'm thinking you could probably save about as much if you just flossed your teeth."
Mark Fulton
Redwood City
California
USA