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.
There's a lot of charm still in the cycloverse. For example, there's Cycle Speedway, which is maybe the simplest form of bike racing you're gonna find. A short, oval track.!-->…
TCI Friday – Dubious Hygiene
The fitter I get, the grosser I tend to be, and the greater my tolerance for being gross becomes. Before I go further, let me suggest that our modern standards for hygiene!-->…
Video – Balance
This little video is a meditation on what the bike does for us, and there are a few things I really like about it. First of all, it's brief. The filmmaker isn't packing shots!-->…
TCI Friday – Role Models
I'm not sure I ever learned anything from watching pro cycling, at least nothing I could apply to my own riding. The race tactics the pros employ to put pressure on their!-->…
TCI Friday – The (Un)Kindness of Others
On the Paceline yesterday, Patrick and I talked about how the people in our lives either encouraged or discouraged us from riding our bikes. I'm fortunate in that I've almost!-->…
Video – Tread the Movie, Official Trailer
I recall sitting on the couch in my friend Charlie's apartment, watching this movie on VHS, in the afterglow of an early mountain bike ride. I wanted to live Greg Herbold's!-->…
An Unexpected Tipping Point
The pedal bike may have reached the end of its evolutionary path. That's maybe a shocking thing to say, but consider that almost no meaningful design advances have been made!-->…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – Chunder
Chunder is a Bro term that describes loose rocky, technical terrain. A trail might have a lot of chunder on it or even be 'chunderous.' The etymology may include the words!-->…
Video – Seeking Perfection – Emil Johansson
Here we have a unique pairing, Emil Johansson a technically superior slopestyle mountain biker, and the sort of film making equipment that can turn all the tropes of your!-->…
TCI Friday – False Dichotomies
The human mind loves contrasts, light and dark, left and right, here and there. Digital. We deal far less well with shades of gray, despite the world we live being little!-->…