Originally Posted by RedFerret
Hardly a myth. Read the link, Fisher spent $1million developing the pressurized pen, but NASA did not pay for it. NASA used pencils. The only myth part is that NASA did not pay for it.
There have been hundreds of ideas hystorically tried out on bicycles, but ~140 years later, it still comes down to simple, light and strong.
The exception is mountain bikes, which seem to be getting more complicated and heavier all the time.