About Robert Penn: Robert Penn was a United States Navy sailor and a recipient of America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions during the Spanish-American War.
A universal truth of bicycling is this - pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
And though history sadly doesn't credit the man who first thought of tilting a bicycle's steering axis, it is more likely to be because of feet striking the wheel than an understanding of stability.
During the boom in velocipedes - known with good reason as 'boneshakers' - tyres were made of solid iron.
