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The Return of Flat Pedals

Padraig
Outside of Taichung Taiwan the land rises up in mountainous jungle threaded with roads that wind like a milk-drunk toddler's path through a living room. My visit to Taiwan was being sponsored by a…
Talk

Revolting 240

Robot and Stevil
3 records, 2 movies and a book. Most humans think they’re complicated, but in reality, pop culture captures most of our personalities and feeds them back to us in shiny packages with long credits…
Talk

Paceline Podcast 475

Padraig
Erik deBrun is one of the three partners behind the component maker Redshift Sports, known for their ShockStop suspension stem and their aero-position-conversion seatpost, the Switch. Lori and…
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Routine and Flow

Padraig
As someone who has both lived with routines that were engraved into my life and as someone ever holding a shoehorn, looking for where to fit my rides in, there is value in having a dedicated routine.…
Talk

Revolting 239

Robot and Stevil
Don’t Kill Yourself. We’re losing too many good people for bad reasons. We get it. We’ve been there. We’ve done the math too. Life can feel like way too much. But we’re gonna be really pissed off if…
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Paceline Podcast: Rerun #414

Padraig
Patrick is sick, as in too sick to record a podcast and, apparently, given the number of times he has re-typed this sentence, too sick to spell. So we are re-running an old show. Sorry. Lori and…
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Sick

Padraig
I'm currently sick and my brain is mush. This is a post that ran on Belgium Knee Warmers in the wayback of 2008. In all that time, nothing has changed. My first clue was a swallow. Ninety-nine…
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Alptastic

Padraig
There’s always another great climb. You could spend a month in the Alps and not ascend all the great climbs. The Alps are the most mammoth buffet you might ever belly up to. You can either eat…

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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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Page One

The Return of Flat Pedals

Padraig
Outside of Taichung Taiwan the land rises up in mountainous jungle threaded with roads that wind like a milk-drunk toddler's path through a living room. My visit to Taiwan was being sponsored by a…
Page One

Routine and Flow

Padraig
As someone who has both lived with routines that were engraved into my life and as someone ever holding a shoehorn, looking for where to fit my rides in, there is value in having a dedicated routine.…

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 240

Robot and Stevil
3 records, 2 movies and a book. Most humans think they’re complicated, but in reality, pop culture captures most of our personalities and feeds them back to us in shiny packages with long credits…
Talk

Paceline Podcast 475

Padraig
Erik deBrun is one of the three partners behind the component maker Redshift Sports, known for their ShockStop suspension stem and their aero-position-conversion seatpost, the Switch. Lori and…
Talk

Revolting 239

Robot and Stevil
Don’t Kill Yourself. We’re losing too many good people for bad reasons. We get it. We’ve been there. We’ve done the math too. Life can feel like way too much. But we’re gonna be really pissed off if…

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