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TCI Friday

I feel certain I've asked this one before, but it's been a while and my memory isn't what it used to be. I went for an MTB ride with some friends the other day. There were four of us. I love each one

Video – The Last Rider

Between this and the coming Tour de France docu-series, I think someone in entertainment land has finally understood what my very specific and small niche is looking for in our viewing product. I

Paceline Podcast 333

Following his segment on how bikes are on sale due to a glut in the market, John takes a look at another segment that has seen its share of over-supply and resulting sales: wheels. Patrick looks at

Video – Life of a Privateer

You know who's charming as all hell? Zoe Cuthbert, that's who. Here's another production by TCI sponsor Shimano, and this one highlights the joys and challenges of competing on the World Tour without

Hey, Just Ride 32

Fat knobbies crunch the sun-baked gravel to the rhythm of my gasps for air, the beat set by my elevated heart-rate that I can feel pounding in my temples covered by a river of sweat. I round

Revolting 80

How to Avoid the Bummer Life. Deep down you know you’re lame, and it’s because you sit around feeling sorry for yourself or get too wrapped up with trying to be a good adult, when you should be

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The Corrections

A thing I wrote years ago for Red Kite Prayer. On this Monday, when the words are all stuck in between my ears, refusing to find my fingertips, a good reminder that sometimes it helps not to try so

Crash Therapy

The conversation in my head while riding Bull Run last weekend in Moab was dawdling along something like this:  “I’m riding really well. I’m gonna try to keep it mellow, keep from redlining cause

Letter from the Editors

The year draws to a close, whether you're done with it or not, and 2022 was a banger here at TCI. Readership grew throughout the year. More people listened to our podcasts. Subscribers subscribed,

Lost and Unlost

Crater Lake. The Pacific Coast. Ghost towns in the high desert. That's cool, but how can you do so much riding alone? This question is usually followed by a comment like "you're so courageous." I

The Shirt Off Our Backs

A call to commerce! An unsubtle, attention-grabbing shout out! A gentle plea. Please witness the arrival of the brand-new, classic Cycling Independent Black t-shirt. Excuse the smirking

Letter from the Editors

Hello Friends, Just us, checking in from the end of summer (unless you're one of our Southern Hemisphere readers...we're not trying to be hemispherist). It's been a busy time for us, Padraig

Just To Be Alive

I know just enough about bikes to know that I don’t know s#*$ about bikes. And I don’t want the mountain of what I don’t know to ruin the truth of what I do know … which is I f*@%ing love riding my

The Crash Samaritan

You open your eyes. Disoriented. Dirty. Details are sharp but nonsensical. Rising dust motes. The tick of a spinning freewheel. A dog with five white whiskers licking your arm. The smell of Christmas

Non-Zero Sum Gains

I have been thinking an awful lot about cycling advocacy and inclusivity. Why? Because I dream of a self-powered world, one in which all citizens glide around on a bicycle of one flavor or another. I

A Year of Shelter

Life changed for us 365 days ago. I doubt you or anyone you know would have been willing to guess that the life you're living today was even possible. It was certainly beyond my imagination, and I

What We Would Say

I chose cycling because it's the only time I don't feel like a klutz.I chose cycling because I can't stick the ball. I chose cycling because I didn't play team sports.I chose cycling because I'm

We Need You On This Ride

I'll be brief. Our primary goal at The Cycling Independent is to make our community as large as we possibly can. Part of that is selfish. We can't continue without your financial support. This is

Editor’s Letter

Right now you might be thinking, "How can this be an editor’s letter on a website? This isn't print!" You very well should be thinking that because we’re not just another website with a bunch of

New York to Provincetown

A single day can feel like a month. Processing a massive ride afterwards is like staring at a Salvador Dali painting. Fifty miles dissolves into a blurry moment. Turns out it took a village

Video – Life of a Privateer

You know who's charming as all hell? Zoe Cuthbert, that's who. Here's another production by TCI sponsor Shimano, and this one highlights the joys and challenges of competing on the World Tour without

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Video – The Last Rider

Between this and the coming Tour de France docu-series, I think someone in entertainment land has finally understood what my very specific and small niche is looking for in our viewing product. I

Video – Life of a Privateer

You know who's charming as all hell? Zoe Cuthbert, that's who. Here's another production by TCI sponsor Shimano, and this one highlights the joys and challenges of competing on the World Tour without

Hey, Just Ride 32

Fat knobbies crunch the sun-baked gravel to the rhythm of my gasps for air, the beat set by my elevated heart-rate that I can feel pounding in my temples covered by a river of sweat. I round

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TCI Friday

I feel certain I've asked this one before, but it's been a while and my memory isn't what it used to be. I went for an MTB ride with some friends the other day. There were four of us. I love each one

TCI Friday

We'd been climbing this hillside in gradual, swooping switchbacks when Koop's chain popped. There at the ridgeline was a boulder with a wooden ladder granting entry to its height and another leading

TCI Friday

Gravel! Gravel! Gravel! Today's standard road bikes have 28mm tires and disc brakes. That would have been a gravel bike ten years ago. There is a new sub-category called All-Road, which is the

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Paceline Podcast 333

Following his segment on how bikes are on sale due to a glut in the market, John takes a look at another segment that has seen its share of over-supply and resulting sales: wheels. Patrick looks at

Revolting 80

How to Avoid the Bummer Life. Deep down you know you’re lame, and it’s because you sit around feeling sorry for yourself or get too wrapped up with trying to be a good adult, when you should be

Paceline Podcast 332

John insists he's not an economist, but he talks about the economy as it affects the bike industry. After several years of not enough supply to meet demand, it seems that there is more supply than

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