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Revolting 228

Robot and Stevil
The Unhelpful Remembance of Selves Past. We always say, “Comparison is the theft of joy.” Actually, apparently, Teddy Roosevelt said it first. He also famously once said, “Who farted? Was it you?”…
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Paceline Podcast 464

Padraig
Lori and Patrick welcome special guest Catherine Fegan-Kim the former director of the DNA women's pro cycling team. She digs into both the nitty and the gritty of women's pro racing including both…
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Fit for the Masses

Padraig
Would you have a look at my saddle height? We were rolling out for a group ride when an acquaintance made the request. She told me the shop had set her saddle height when she bought her bike, but…
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The Emerald City Ride

Padraig
My first New England fall wowed me the way young love hits everyone. I'd left home mere weeks before and carried the primed disposition of someone champing for their crack at the world. When the…
Talk

Revolting 227

Robot and Stevil
The Quadrennial Performance Review. The corporate culture here at the Revolting podcast is sorely lacking. Because we fired everyone in HR (for obvious reasons), neither one of us has had a…
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Paceline Podcast 463

Padraig
While Patrick was taking notes for the written posts on Sea Otter, Lori interviewed people from Ibis, Pivot, Boyd Wheels, Allied Cycle Works and more.
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Sea Otter Classic 2026, Part II

Padraig
The Sea Otter Classic is unlike any other event I've attended, anywhere on the planet, and while that may not be surprising, this part does surprise me: It is chaotic in a way that I would not…
Talk

Revolting 226

Robot and Stevil
We’re Not Starting a Cult, But If We Were Starting a Cult. Humans will believe just about anything, which makes them ripe for recruitment by people who would manipulate them for their own nefarious…

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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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The Emerald City Ride

Padraig
My first New England fall wowed me the way young love hits everyone. I'd left home mere weeks before and carried the primed disposition of someone champing for their crack at the world. When the…

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Paceline Podcast 464

Padraig
Lori and Patrick welcome special guest Catherine Fegan-Kim the former director of the DNA women's pro cycling team. She digs into both the nitty and the gritty of women's pro racing including both…
Page One

The Emerald City Ride

Padraig
My first New England fall wowed me the way young love hits everyone. I'd left home mere weeks before and carried the primed disposition of someone champing for their crack at the world. When the…
Page One

Paceline Podcast 463

Padraig
While Patrick was taking notes for the written posts on Sea Otter, Lori interviewed people from Ibis, Pivot, Boyd Wheels, Allied Cycle Works and more.

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Op-Ed

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…
Op-Ed

Because Bikes: Grit

Padraig
Of the many facets in my life that give me reason to feel gratitude, cycling keeps coming up for me. Who I was as a young person—deeply neurodivergent, madly intelligent and epically…

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Talk

Revolting 228

Robot and Stevil
The Unhelpful Remembance of Selves Past. We always say, “Comparison is the theft of joy.” Actually, apparently, Teddy Roosevelt said it first. He also famously once said, “Who farted? Was it you?”…
Talk

Revolting 227

Robot and Stevil
The Quadrennial Performance Review. The corporate culture here at the Revolting podcast is sorely lacking. Because we fired everyone in HR (for obvious reasons), neither one of us has had a…
Talk

Revolting 226

Robot and Stevil
We’re Not Starting a Cult, But If We Were Starting a Cult. Humans will believe just about anything, which makes them ripe for recruitment by people who would manipulate them for their own nefarious…

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