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Because Bikes: the Social Contract

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…
Talk

Revolting 224

Robot and Stevil
A Participation Trophy for Your Trouble. It’s award season, because it’s never not award season when people who already make a lot of money and are crazy famous also want to be told they’re doing a…
Talk

Paceline Podcast 460

Padraig
This week, Lori and Patrick talk with Joel Sehloff, the West Coast head of OE sales for Factor Bicycles. He tells the story of his path through the bike industry, beginning with shop grom in…
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An Inside Job

Bence Balla
Here we have a missive from friend Bence Balla in Budapest, which is alliterative. He's sharing an experience some of us "hardcore" cyclists have learned over time, that you always think you know how…
Talk

Revolting 223

Robot and Stevil
Never Put the Shovel Away. Robot made a huge mistake last week. He put one of his snow shovels away in the shed. That caused it to snow this week. OK. OK. Maybe it didn’t cause it to snow, but you…
Talk

Paceline Podcast 459

Padraig
This week Lori and Patrick talk to pro gravel rider Whitney Allison of Bike Sports in Fort Collins, Colo. Following an impressive career as a pro on the road, Whitney and her husband, Josh, opened…

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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,…
Talk

Paceline Podcast 460

Padraig
This week, Lori and Patrick talk with Joel Sehloff, the West Coast head of OE sales for Factor Bicycles. He tells the story of his path through the bike industry, beginning with shop grom in…

Page One

Page One

An Inside Job

Bence Balla
Here we have a missive from friend Bence Balla in Budapest, which is alliterative. He's sharing an experience some of us "hardcore" cyclists have learned over time, that you always think you know how…
Page One

Video: We Are Cyclists

Padraig
We don't normally share content created by brands here. It isn't how we see our editorial mission. But. When I began working to build The Cycling Independent, I swore that I was going to do more to…

Op-Ed

Op-Ed

Because Bikes: the Social Contract

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

Talk

Revolting 224

Robot and Stevil
A Participation Trophy for Your Trouble. It’s award season, because it’s never not award season when people who already make a lot of money and are crazy famous also want to be told they’re doing a…
Talk

Paceline Podcast 460

Padraig
This week, Lori and Patrick talk with Joel Sehloff, the West Coast head of OE sales for Factor Bicycles. He tells the story of his path through the bike industry, beginning with shop grom in…
Talk

Revolting 223

Robot and Stevil
Never Put the Shovel Away. Robot made a huge mistake last week. He put one of his snow shovels away in the shed. That caused it to snow this week. OK. OK. Maybe it didn’t cause it to snow, but you…

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