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Revolting 232
Lightning Strikes Thrice. We’ve been doing a bad job of getting to the topic each week, which leaves you without the deep and wise words that you come here for. Instead of correcting our behavior and…
Paceline Podcast 468
Do you have a favorite bike event you've done? What made it special? This week Lori and Patrick talk their favorite events and why they did them on a recurring basis.
Caladryl Clear
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A Useful Review: Hunt Enduro V3 Wheels
Let’s begin with an agreed-upon maxim. Wheels can have the most immediately noticeable effect on your bike’s performance. Wheels are often the first big upgrade that riders make for their bike as it…
Video – The State of Two Arts in Mountain Biking
I'm giving you two videos today. The first one is a freeride masterpiece that gets me excited on a few levels. First, great music. Second, show me some crashes. Third, gnarly riding. Fourth, German.…
Revolting 231
The Princesses and the Peas. Even on our best days we encounter annoyances, dumb little things that threaten to send us into a blind rage. A pebble in the shoe. An ingrown hair. Tax prep. The voices…
Paceline Podcast 467
The Driveway was the hottest thing in weeknight racing for hundreds of miles in any direction around Austin in the teens thanks to the tireless efforts of race promoter Andrew Willis. Lori and…
Revolting 230
Stars Going Supernova. Even the stars in the sky flame out. They say the 50s are the new 30s, but in our 30s we could sleep and injuries still healed. In our experience the 50s might be the new 80s,…
Featured Posts
Llamas, Donkeys and Sage
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…
Part of Me
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,…
A Useful Review: Hunt Enduro V3 Wheels
Let’s begin with an agreed-upon maxim. Wheels can have the most immediately noticeable effect on your bike’s performance. Wheels are often the first big upgrade that riders make for their bike as it…
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Paceline Podcast 468
Do you have a favorite bike event you've done? What made it special? This week Lori and Patrick talk their favorite events and why they did them on a recurring basis.
Caladryl Clear
…
Video – The State of Two Arts in Mountain Biking
I'm giving you two videos today. The first one is a freeride masterpiece that gets me excited on a few levels. First, great music. Second, show me some crashes. Third, gnarly riding. Fourth, German.…
Op-Ed
Ebullition/Doubt 38: Tense and Nervous and I Can’t Relax
We always parked on the “landside” of Atlantic Avenue, generally at my mom’s friend’s house. This was back when it was still possible to rent a place on the north end of Virginia Beach long before…
Because Bikes: Duty
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…
Ebullition Doubt 37: Because I Got High
There is never a bad time to reference Afroman. You can read all about him, but suffice it to say the guy now is the most modern example of an American hero we have following his recent court…
Classified
A Useful Review: Hunt Enduro V3 Wheels
Let’s begin with an agreed-upon maxim. Wheels can have the most immediately noticeable effect on your bike’s performance. Wheels are often the first big upgrade that riders make for their bike as it…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – 15spd Telepathic
Some of you may be aware that I don't love to write reviews. It's because I'm just not that interested in the technical details of most products, but also because I believe, sincerely, that most of…
A Useful Review: Gibbon Slackboard Plus
You already know this but I'm going to say it so that we have all acknowledged the sizable pachyderm with us:Cycling leaves a lot of our stabilizer muscles weak. It sucks. It doubly sucks because I…
Talk
Revolting 232
Lightning Strikes Thrice. We’ve been doing a bad job of getting to the topic each week, which leaves you without the deep and wise words that you come here for. Instead of correcting our behavior and…
Revolting 231
The Princesses and the Peas. Even on our best days we encounter annoyances, dumb little things that threaten to send us into a blind rage. A pebble in the shoe. An ingrown hair. Tax prep. The voices…
Paceline Podcast 467
The Driveway was the hottest thing in weeknight racing for hundreds of miles in any direction around Austin in the teens thanks to the tireless efforts of race promoter Andrew Willis. Lori and…