BLOG: How M&M’s can make cycling safer  

In the music world, a contract for live concerts typically has an appendix, also known as a ‘rider’, that includes all kinds of very detailed technical and practical rules and demands of a band. Some bands are known for adding insane or absurd requests to a rider – rock band Van Halen was one of them. Their wish list included “M&M’s (WARNING: ABSOLUTELY NO BROWN ONES!)”. Their contract further stipulated the following: “There will be no brown M&M’s in the backstage area, upon pain of forfeiture of the show, with full compensation”.