Robot’s Useless Reviews – The Tube You Didn’t Bring
We should acknowledge first that the tube you did bring was useful. In fact, it fulfilled the exact purpose it was made for. It replaced the snake bitten tube you were riding…
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TCI Friday
It's a thinky time of life, isn't it? Everyone stuck at home. Trying to work. Trying not kill their family. I don't know about you, but I'm erring on the side of too damn…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – Campy Delta Brakes
Now that we've done this schtick a few times, maybe it's worth talking about why useless reviews need to be written. It's not because the products highlighted need to be…
Back to the Dirt
It's all going that way. The animating idea in cycling, after the mountain bike boom of the '90s, was a swing back to road riding, road racing, everything on pavement. A…
TCI Friday
I have good news everybody. The presidential election is coming up, and whoever wins is probably gonna cure Covid-19, because that's what presidents do. Am I right?!?!
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The Villager
My brother was the sort of character you could never quite figure out. He could say and do horrible things. He could be malicious and dumb. He was chaotic and unpredictable.…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – Your Friend’s Bike
Of all the makes and models of bike on the market today, perhaps no bike is as intriguing as one bike, one nearly unobtainable two-wheeled dream, a bike both within reach and…
TCI Friday
I don't know how I arrived at a place where every bike I owned required a specific pair of shoes, but you can imagine I felt pretty dumb about it,. Now, obviously I am an…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – The Malt Nut Power Bar
Before we talk about the flavor of this titular calorie bomb, I should warn you that there is a cult that, even today, remains devoted to the flavor and consistency of the…
TCI Friday
Somewhere in the big bucket of drafts I keep, unfinished ideas, started and abandoned works of great genius, there is a long (way too long) exploration of why so many of the…