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Applied Cycling

Padraig
Scientists like to draw a distinction between the theory of science and its practical application, and with good reason. There's a meaningful difference between believing your car gets good enough…
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Hey, Just Ride: Goodbye Lefty

John Rezell
Weaving in and out of an ancient forest of Juniper trees I’m transported to a magical, mystical place where time gets recorded in the gnarly nooks and crannies of these twisted trunks that have…
Talk

Revolting 236

Robot and Stevil
Getting Exactly What We Deserve. We complain a lot about getting old and our bodies falling apart, but we have systematically avoided all the precautionary steps one might take to mitigate the…
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Paceline Podcast 472

Padraig
Have you ever been on a ride (or drive) and seen people make vehicle maneuvers and wondered just what sort of inner logic might have been at work? Patrick is still in Memphis and has compiled and…
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Memphis in Art

Padraig
There's a saying about Memphis transplants: You know you're a Memphian when you'll defend the city to others. It's a particular sort of barometer. I expect it won't make sense to everyone. To live in…
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The Shape of Failure

Emlyn Lewis
I probably spend too much time standing by the side of the trail talking about what it's like to ride mountain bikes instead of riding them, but I have a degree in philosophy and a lifetime of…
Talk

Revolting 235

Robot and Stevil
Support This Podcast Formative Filmography. The ‘70s, ‘80s, and ‘90s were a time before streaming, when you had to mean to watch a movie. It didn’t just happen by accident. Back then, people could…
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Paceline Podcast 471

Padraig
The desire to do a bike tour is universal among the vacation wish lists of cyclists worldwide. For most of us, we've read about or ridden tours domestically and in Europe. But what about Africa? This…
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Seasons

Padraig
The notion of seasons in cycling has always rung wrong to my ear. For those of us who spent time following professional cycling, the cycling season didn't encompass summer summer, it was the whole of…

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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 472

Padraig
Have you ever been on a ride (or drive) and seen people make vehicle maneuvers and wondered just what sort of inner logic might have been at work? Patrick is still in Memphis and has compiled and…

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Page One

Applied Cycling

Padraig
Scientists like to draw a distinction between the theory of science and its practical application, and with good reason. There's a meaningful difference between believing your car gets good enough…
Page One

Hey, Just Ride: Goodbye Lefty

John Rezell
Weaving in and out of an ancient forest of Juniper trees I’m transported to a magical, mystical place where time gets recorded in the gnarly nooks and crannies of these twisted trunks that have…
Page One

Paceline Podcast 472

Padraig
Have you ever been on a ride (or drive) and seen people make vehicle maneuvers and wondered just what sort of inner logic might have been at work? Patrick is still in Memphis and has compiled and…

Op-Ed

Op-Ed

Hot Take: Bikes Are Too Good Now

Emlyn Lewis
I just wanted to crack the passenger side window, like one-and-a-half cranks of the old lever that did the job when you could actually "roll down the window." But we don't roll the window down…
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…

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Talk

Talk

Revolting 236

Robot and Stevil
Getting Exactly What We Deserve. We complain a lot about getting old and our bodies falling apart, but we have systematically avoided all the precautionary steps one might take to mitigate the…
Talk

Revolting 235

Robot and Stevil
Support This Podcast Formative Filmography. The ‘70s, ‘80s, and ‘90s were a time before streaming, when you had to mean to watch a movie. It didn’t just happen by accident. Back then, people could…
Talk

Revolting 234

Robot and Stevil
Support This Podcast Doomsday Prepping. As long as humanity has been new boot goofin’ around Planet Earth, we’ve been preparing for the end. Will it be an asteroid strike? Alien attack? Or will we…

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