Mike R. is on the cover and the lead feature of the SEP/OCT issue of Bicycle Guide.
"I'm the reason that that green bike is on the SEINFELD set in the first place--not the set director, like you wrote," he groused good naturedly about the product placement story in July's Inside Spin. "She wanted to put a BOOKCASE there. I said, 'Put a BIKE there--and make it a Klein.' Klein owes me--big time!
"That's why it tick's me off that Klein sent Jerry [Seinfeld] the Adroit--not me. He doesn't even ride it--because he doesn't want to get it dirty. He's a clean freak, and he only does yoga.
"And by the way, the bike on the set--with the fork backwards, like your readers noticed in the article--is a Rascal, not an Adroit."
[later]
Richards was intrigued by the notion, raised by a few BG letter-writers, of having a SEINFELD script focus on the dusty bike. "A big problem is exteriors--we don't do much of them," he said. Then he got a far-away look in his eyes and smiled. "Kramer on a bike," he said. "Think of the possibilities."