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 is a paradox of being in the full embrace of an epic bonk that you are simultaneously out of gas and inexplicably gassy.
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TCI Friday
Among those of us whose passion for bikes has led us to amass large collections (stables, quivers, piles) of them, sometimes hung neatly from rafters, other times stacked!-->…
How to Get Your Kid to Love Mountain Biking
He doesn’t know where his helmet is, and he is not looking for it. He doesn’t have a water bottle either, even though it’s one of the hottest days of the year. “Dad, what!-->…
Robot’s Useless Reviews—Air
Have you ever been stuck by the side of a road or a trail with a flat tire, and thought, "Air is everywhere! There must be a way to get it inside this rubber hoop!" I can!-->…
TCI Friday*
Welcome one and all. If you arrive here as a former reader of Red Kite Prayer, you will know the routine from the Friday Group Ride that featured there for the last decade.!-->…
Robot’s Useless Reviews—Park Blue Grease
Robot's Useless Reviews aren't really reviews. They take their cue from the impossibly obscure '90s zine "Beer Frame—The Journal of Conspicuous Consumption," which introduced!-->…
Becoming a TCI Supporter
Well, we've wrestled that hydra to its knees, or whatever hydra have that pass for knees. The shopping cart is functioning as you'd expect a shopping cart to function.
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Joy as an Act of Resistance
Sometimes the simple act of riding a bike for fun will hold back an ocean of hurt, of conflict, of responsibility, of baggage, of politics both interpersonal and!-->…