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Revolting 184

Robot and Stevil
Run-Ins with Authority. We were young and surly and had a really hard time sitting still. You know who hates that? The man. Sometimes it was a man in a uniform with a gun on his hip. Sometimes it was…
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TCI Friday – Progress

John Rezell
I've written before that you have to be prepared for change if you ride the forests of Oregon. You can head out one day and find an entire mountain on your route clear cut. I understand the value…
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say what?

Conner Burns
Riding outside. The sights, sounds and smells. Mostly pleasant, but not always. Always different. I know we all love beautiful views and the flowers blooming – sight and smell. Sometimes we…
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Paceline Podcast 420

Emlyn Lewis
This week we have Tour de France preview. Who are the contenders for Yellow, Green, Polka and White Jerseys? Patrick finds flow on an eBike and wonders what that means, and we Paceline Picks to help…
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Flow, Electrified

Padraig
At the risk of saying something obvious, given my previous work, I want to put myself on record as being an admitted, unrepentant flow junkie. One of the weirder revelations of my life came the day I…
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A Horrible Sense of Belonging

Emlyn Lewis
Conformity. The pressure to fit in. And once we fit in, the pressure to stay there, evolving with the in-group’s ideas. If I rewind to the very beginning, the first days I knew how to ride a bike,…
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Llamas, Donkeys and Sage

Maureen Gaffney
The Wuanita loop in Saguache (“Saw–watch”) County, Colorado was my third bikepack, but my first without the handholding provided by a 2021 “Bikepacking 101 Course” offered by Rim Tours in Moab, or a…

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Llamas, Donkeys and Sage

Maureen Gaffney
The Wuanita loop in Saguache (“Saw–watch”) County, Colorado was my third bikepack, but my first without the handholding provided by a 2021 “Bikepacking 101 Course” offered by Rim Tours in Moab, or a…
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For Los Angeles

Padraig
The wildfires in Southern California will go down as the most expensive natural disaster in the state's history. Combined, the Palisades, Eaton, Hurst and Auto fires, have burned more than 40,000…
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Part of Me

Pat Navin
In my dream, I am riding up a steep climb on a narrow road winding through redwoods, barely able to turn the pedals. But I am happy. Ecstatic, really. I am one with my bike, an extension of my body,…

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TCI Friday – Progress

John Rezell
I've written before that you have to be prepared for change if you ride the forests of Oregon. You can head out one day and find an entire mountain on your route clear cut. I understand the value…

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TCI Friday – Unleashed

John Rezell
Pedaling down the California coast just south of Carlsbad along the famed PCH, I rolled up on whom I christened without question as the biggest dumb duck bike rider I’ve ever seen. At first…
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Ebikes: a Confession

Padraig
I’ve been working on a book proposal about how ebikes developed in the U.S. market, put more simply, the story of ebikes in the U.S. for several months now, I’ve been conducting interviews with…
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TCI Friday – Java

John Rezell
I’ve had a love/hate relationship with caffeine for years, well, actually decades. Hey, I’m an old fart. Many, many years ago I decided to experiment to understand my body better, so I could…

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A Useful Review: the Handlestash

Padraig
Last week I realized something kinda surprising. I don't have a bottle cage on my ebike. I don't ever fill a water bottle and bring it with me when I'm running errands by ebike, even if I'm out the…

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Revolting 184

Robot and Stevil
Run-Ins with Authority. We were young and surly and had a really hard time sitting still. You know who hates that? The man. Sometimes it was a man in a uniform with a gun on his hip. Sometimes it was…
Talk

Paceline Podcast 420

Emlyn Lewis
This week we have Tour de France preview. Who are the contenders for Yellow, Green, Polka and White Jerseys? Patrick finds flow on an eBike and wonders what that means, and we Paceline Picks to help…
Talk

Revolting 183

Robot and Stevil
We Are Just Bad VHS Copies of Our Younger Selves. The cells in your body regenerate every 7-10 years, although some actually stay the same. You’re not a literal clone of yourself, but from an…

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