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Revolting 232

Robot and Stevil
Lightning Strikes Thrice. We’ve been doing a bad job of getting to the topic each week, which leaves you without the deep and wise words that you come here for. Instead of correcting our behavior and…
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Paceline Podcast 468

Padraig
Do you have a favorite bike event you've done? What made it special? This week Lori and Patrick talk their favorite events and why they did them on a recurring basis. Caladryl Clear …
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Revolting 231

Robot and Stevil
The Princesses and the Peas. Even on our best days we encounter annoyances, dumb little things that threaten to send us into a blind rage. A pebble in the shoe. An ingrown hair. Tax prep. The voices…
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Paceline Podcast 467

Padraig
The Driveway was the hottest thing in weeknight racing for hundreds of miles in any direction around Austin in the teens thanks to the tireless efforts of race promoter Andrew Willis. Lori and…
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Revolting 230

Robot and Stevil
Stars Going Supernova. Even the stars in the sky flame out. They say the 50s are the new 30s, but in our 30s we could sleep and injuries still healed. In our experience the 50s might be the new 80s,…
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The Bales

Padraig
We'd pedaled in the shadow of Mont Ventoux, riding east across Provence just as summer's heat began to cook the asphalt. Outside of the town of Sisteron, we passed fields of lavender, not yet fully…
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Boogers

Emlyn Lewis
I pick my nose. I think you probably do, too, not in the way of young children, who root around in the wet mess in the center of their face for the simple fact that they haven't yet learned to be…

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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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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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Paceline Podcast 468

Padraig
Do you have a favorite bike event you've done? What made it special? This week Lori and Patrick talk their favorite events and why they did them on a recurring basis. Caladryl Clear …
Page One

Boogers

Emlyn Lewis
I pick my nose. I think you probably do, too, not in the way of young children, who root around in the wet mess in the center of their face for the simple fact that they haven't yet learned to be…

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Because Bikes: Duty

Padraig
We rounded a bend that the map said was a sure-fire exit from Monte Carlo to a coastal road that would run to Nice. My group numbered six, maybe seven riders—I no longer recall exactly because…

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Revolting 232

Robot and Stevil
Lightning Strikes Thrice. We’ve been doing a bad job of getting to the topic each week, which leaves you without the deep and wise words that you come here for. Instead of correcting our behavior and…
Talk

Revolting 231

Robot and Stevil
The Princesses and the Peas. Even on our best days we encounter annoyances, dumb little things that threaten to send us into a blind rage. A pebble in the shoe. An ingrown hair. Tax prep. The voices…
Talk

Paceline Podcast 467

Padraig
The Driveway was the hottest thing in weeknight racing for hundreds of miles in any direction around Austin in the teens thanks to the tireless efforts of race promoter Andrew Willis. Lori and…

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