Author
Emlyn Lewis
Robot fell in love with cycling watching the older neighborhood kids ride wheelies down the street. It was the early '70s, and Evel Knievel was jumping motorcycles over buses. Everything seemed possible. From that moment, the die was cast (iacta alia est).
He studied philosophy in college, of course he did. That's what idealists do, romantics, kids who think there must be a better way. At the same time, bikes were carrying him everywhere, delivering all of life's gifts and surprises. Occasionally he crashed and didn't mind.
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!-->…
Hot Take: Bikes Are Ugly
Yes. I know. You love your bike. You gaze lovingly at it when you're not riding it. You likely also feel this way about your, let's be honest, homely children. I get it. Your!-->…
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!-->…
Boogers
I pick my nose. I think you probably do, too, not in the way of young children, who root around in the wet mess in the center of their face for the simple fact that they!-->…
Deliver Us From Evil
It is unbecoming of an adult person to pull on a leotard and a pair of tap shoes and venture out in public with a plastic toy between their legs, and yet, legions of us are!-->…
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,!-->…
Not Even I Care What I Think About Your Bike
Like you, I have opinions. I have even been called 'opinionated' by people who know and like me. But the older I get the fewer opinions I have, because there's so much I'm!-->…
Revolting 225
TV Had Rotted Our Minds Long Before the Internet Came Along. You must see that the Internet is just the Choose Your Own Adventure version of television, and long before the!-->…
Paceline Tandem – Andy McGrath on Tadej Pogačar
Our guest today is Andy McGrath, author of the new Tadej Pogačar biography Unstoppable. He’s been editor of Rouleur magazine and chief reporter at Cycling Weekly. He’s won!-->…
Tadej Pogačar: Unstoppable by Andy McGrath
If you're 27-years old and someone writes your biography, then you must have done some pretty remarkable stuff, and thus appears this first attempt to understand the Pogačar!-->…