With any luck and judicious editing on the part of the staff at BBC, we
may have an OCRC kit emblazoned on TV screens across Blighty in a month or
two. Sadly, it won't in a program about the thrill of bike racing, but
rather some sort of mundane science program. (They mentioned "BBC in
America", but I don't know if that's a regular program.)

The background is that the BBC sent a couple of plucky reporters over here
to Cali to brave the solar radiation and do a piece on the new technology of
genome sequencing and the social implications thereof. For whatever reason,
they wanted to include the opinions of some cyclists on this topic, so they
made the call to Alto Velo and I was one of the members who got the call up.
Rather than show up in the pickle-green AV kit, I thought it would be much
more fun and appropriate to show off the Oxford City colors to the BBC
audience. The BBC reporter who had done a stint at the radio station in
Summertown liked the idea. We answered a few questions about how we as
cyclists would respond to the possibilities of having our genomes sequenced
and then the took a number of filler shots of us talking about bikes and
riding about.

I don't know the when they will broadcast the program, but if I hear I
will pass it along. They said in 2 to 8 weeks, but it may just end up on
the editing-room floor. I hope not, because they did get a great shot of me
in the Oxford Road Club kit riding on Marina Green against the background of
the Golden Gate Bridge.