TCI New Year
I owe you this. Last Friday I was up a snowy mountain trail looking for the better parts of my soul and letting the sweat evaporate from the top of my sweaty head, the evil…
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Robot’s Useless Reviews – Gravel
"This!" C yelled from just ahead of me on the long, loose gravel climb, "This is a sport? This?!?" Our tires zig-zagged in the chunky mess. Progress was slow. "A sport!" he…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – Tyler Hamilton’s Vanishing Twin
Before I type another word I want to address a few important points about this review, useless as it is by design. First, I really loved Tyler Hamilton as a racer. The TDF he…
TCI Friday
I'm a bad friend sometimes. Bruce had suggested we get in one last mountain bike ride before the big snow storm, the one swirling outside my window as I type. I said I was…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – This Mid-Ride Coffee
Holy blessed Jesus, Mary, Joseph, Buddha, Lord Satan, and the Decepticons, I needed this mid-ride coffee. It's a caffeinated beverage and strictly speaking not the wisest…
TCI Friday
Regular readers might be shocked to find out that I am very regularly asked for my advice, vis a vis, cycling products. To say that my opinions don't necessarily reflect…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – The Chamois
It is interesting to me that the one piece of "equipment" integral to the completion of any long ride gets discussed so little, that we don't talk about chamois (plural and…
TCI Friday
I have been going back through the (really rather massive) archive of writing that Padraig and I (to a lesser extent) compiled at Red Kite Prayer, partly to recycle old ideas…
Robot’s Useless Reviews—Electrical Tape
It might be clear at this point that I find a particular inspiration and glee in the objects cycling takes from other walks of life (who would walk?!?!) and makes them ours,…
TCI Friday
Like you, I've had gratitude bouncing around my brain for the last couple days. I have so much to be thankful for that it's hard to know where to begin. In a year when the…