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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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Video: 1996 Classique des Alpes

Padraig
From 1991 to 2004, immediately before the Criterium du Dauphiné, there was a one-day race, a kind of modern classic (think on that for a moment) held in Southeast France, otherwise known as the…
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Floating Zero

Emlyn Lewis
Where even is the bottom? I have looked. I have rooted around deep in the bucket of myself and never quite gotten there. Oh sure, I've emptied the bucket, bonked, dehydrated, heartrate capering…
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Paceline Podcast 419

Padraig
Here we are, five years down the road from the lockdown, and the bike world is still in a state of flux. John wonders how shops might evolve their business model to survive. Patrick gets in the…
Op-Ed

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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either / or

Conner Burns
If you are currently reading, and enjoy this site, my guess is that you enjoy the bike. Duhhh, you say? Well, I know not everyone reading this rides a bike, but I also believe not everyone that rides…
Talk

Revolting 182

Robot and Stevil
FOBI and JOMO. Fear of being included. Joy of missing out. Oh, we love hijinks and shenanigans both. We love our friends and enjoy knocking things out of their hands. But gosh it’s also really nice…
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Video – Frankenbiking

Emlyn Lewis
In 2001, the British write Martin Amis released a collection of essays entitled The War Against Cliche. In it he said, "To idealise: all writing is a campaign against cliche. Not just cliches of the…

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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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Paceline Podcast 419

Padraig
Here we are, five years down the road from the lockdown, and the bike world is still in a state of flux. John wonders how shops might evolve their business model to survive. Patrick gets in the…

Page One

Page One

Video: 1996 Classique des Alpes

Padraig
From 1991 to 2004, immediately before the Criterium du Dauphiné, there was a one-day race, a kind of modern classic (think on that for a moment) held in Southeast France, otherwise known as the…
Page One

Floating Zero

Emlyn Lewis
Where even is the bottom? I have looked. I have rooted around deep in the bucket of myself and never quite gotten there. Oh sure, I've emptied the bucket, bonked, dehydrated, heartrate capering…
Page One

Paceline Podcast 419

Padraig
Here we are, five years down the road from the lockdown, and the bike world is still in a state of flux. John wonders how shops might evolve their business model to survive. Patrick gets in the…

Op-Ed

Op-Ed

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…
Op-Ed

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…
Op-Ed

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…

Classified

Classified

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…

Talk

Talk

Revolting 182

Robot and Stevil
FOBI and JOMO. Fear of being included. Joy of missing out. Oh, we love hijinks and shenanigans both. We love our friends and enjoy knocking things out of their hands. But gosh it’s also really nice…
Talk

Revolting 181

Robot and Stevil
Multipart Definitions and Dual Diagnoses. Our simple human brains want everything to be simple. Effects have clear cut causes. Injuries happen to specific parts of the body. Unfortunately, the world…
Talk

Paceline Podcast 417

Padraig
Cycling can be a political act. We're not talking defiance or protest or oppression, just the simple reality that riding a bike on the road means sharing space with other individuals doing things…

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