A Lad from Featherstone

21st January 2021. Playitas sports resort, Fuerteventura.  One hour - interval training- spinning class. Fritz Pohl  is my spinning instructor. Germany , from the 1950s onwards, became an industrial powerhouse, dominating the automobile industry worldwide. How?   They employed many clones of Fritz, all marching to the same (142bpm) beat.   Spinning ® What is it? Johnny Goldberg, a US endurance cyclist, fell off his bike - ouch - and created the concept of spinning cycling in the late 1980s: safer than being on the roads. He invented the spinning bike in 1992 and ran his first classes at Crunch Gyms in New York in 1993. Karen Voight, an American Hollywood fitness and dance guru, took it to a different market but thought the early spin classes were very intense, which caused people to feel intimidated because they weren’t fit enough to keep pace, so devised her own and took it onto a world stage. Fritz comes from the “Goldberg”-school, which makes sense being in ‘#Europe’s bes