The DaveyChain

Both David Hasselhoff & Ever Ready promoted something called "(K)Night Rider" in the 80s.  One was a TV series around a super advanced self-driving car called KITT (with what could loosely be described as LEDs on the bonnet), the Hoff playing "Michael" aided by KITT in tackling crime and generally re-acting the same plot episode after episode.  In fact, KITT's noises and looks are akin to a Tesla now I guess, albeit the Tesla's self-driving technology is way behind a now 40yrs old KITT... KITT was also around a million years ahead of the other "Night Rider", Ever Ready's lighting sets which presumably enjoyed a free & unexpected publicity boost because of the naming.  Those LEDs on KITT's bonnet actually looked like they were visible, which was already a step up on the rear light of the unbelievably incredibly popular Ever Ready lights. The design brief of the Ever Ready lights must have been this: We are a battery maker. Let's

Open up any cycling magazine or cycling website over the past few years and it'll feature gravel riding.  Photos of gravel roads undulating through forests before leading to a gravel hairpin before a stretch of gravel especially open to expansive skies, before taking a small gravel off-shoot to a lake previously untouched by human breath, let alone a gravel tyre.  This lake, not on maps nor even seen by any of the 2787 active satellites above Earth this very second, will provide the perfect backdrop to boil a whistling kettle and stroke your beard whilst watching rare birds circle above some unicorns frolicking in the water (I googled the number of satellites, obviously). These writers did not approach me or the expanding band of UK cyclists about our realities of going off-road, and as it's autumn, off-road when the days are short and the tracks never dry.  If they had, it would be this... Ride along a road, a normal road.  Internally remark to yourself about how 'draggy&#