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.
It's a long time since my default riding costume included white bell bottoms, but once that fashion statement comes back around, as all bad ideas must eventually, I'll ride!-->…
TCI Friday
Earlier in the week, when I was cogitating on what I wanted to ask you this week, I thought maybe I'd talk about bikes you wished you'd had, the ones that got away, or!-->…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – GPS
It is what it is. We are where we are. Ah, how humans bask in the truth and glory of a good tautology. Wait. Can tautologies be good? Can they be bad? A hemorrhoid is a!-->…
TCI Friday
I'm trying to be wrong more. No. That's not right. I'm trying to be willing to be wrong more. Yeah. That's it. Without wading in too deep, and without triggering any of you!-->…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – Legs
The human leg is a miraculous machine, a double pivot that creates power by levering the body's own weight against the ground, or a pedal interface, which might be connected!-->…
TCIF
I have a big, white ceramic bowl, whimsically asymmetrical in design, that sits on the shelf just above the potato chips, and that bowl holds a cornucopia of!-->…
Anecdotally – Your LBS in the Time of Covid-19
The people who work at your local bike shop have had quite a year. They weren't ready for the tidal wave of riders who, confined to quarters by a global pandemic, decided it!-->…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – Fingerless Gloves
There was a time when I assumed I needed a pair of fingerless gloves in order to properly ride a road bike in the United States of America. If the backs of those "gloves"!-->…
TCI Friday
I never thought I'd get to this place, which is my basement. Wide pine stairs lead down. Too bright LED lighting, courtesy of the hack electrician in residence. A white!-->…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – End Caps
You know you have it great when something so stupid bothers you. Either that or you're stupid, which I may be, but I'll leave that to you and the comments section below.
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