How (Not) to Wrap Your Handlebars
Here's a thing I'm bad at and can help you be bad at too. This is no false modesty either. One time I asked my friend Matt for some help replacing a headset. He had a headset…
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Barry Hoban
My cousin Cerys messaged me to say Barry Hoban, one of the very brightest lights of British cycling in the '60s and '70s, had passed away. They were neighbors.
I…
TCI Friday – The Peeves
I am, mainly through the passage of time, a more patient person than I used to be. Maybe it's all that headwind, streaming over my shoulders that's abraded the harder edges…
Biological Imperatives
My body continually lets me down. Oh, yeah. Sure. It’s amazing. It can do all sorts of things. I can ride a very long way sometimes, but why do I always have to pee?
I…
TCI Friday
You have experienced this. You're at a cookout or a party or a business function, and someone has ratted you out as a "serious cyclist" to some civilian type with questions…
The Continuum
I rode with my friend Fez the other day. Fez has written for the site. He’s a yoga and meditation teacher, a two-time cancer survivor, a musician, and he came back to bike…
TCI Friday – Your Ride and/or Die
Yesterday on the Paceline, we discussed the bikes we've put the most miles on. You have one, too, obviously. Maybe yours was a matter of necessity, like you were young, and…
TCI Moving to AI for All Cycling and Cycling Adjacent Activities
There was a time when, if you had an idea that you wanted to communicate to people who weren't in the same room as you, you might resort to pen and paper, "writing it down"…
TCI Friday – The Pedal and the Metal
My taste in music runs to the heavy, the loud, and the chaotic, but don't worry; I'm not going to make you listen to any of it. This is really more about the music in your…
That’ll Leave a Mark
This piece appeared originally in Hokem Magazine. The new issue (#5) of Hokem is out this week.
I got my first tattoo when I was 20. We had to drive to Rhode Island,…