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Video – Biface
There are a few things I love about this one. First, there's no music. It's just the sound of the wind blowing and the buzz of freewheels. Second, the riding has a balletic…
TCI Friday – A New Move
The best bike trick of all time is the wheelie. Don't even come at me. Sure, there are a million tricks harder to do, but the wheelie is the OG. It's trick zero. When I was…
Giving Your Kids the Gift of Bikes
I've told the story a dozen times by now. When I was eight years old a BMX bike appeared in front of our artificial Christmas tree and changed my life. With the holidays in…
Video – A Brief History of Bicycle Engineering
You know these things, but maybe you haven't thought about them in exactly this way. In the middle '90s I was involved in a startup that built a stationary bike that modeled…
Video – Arto Saari: Bike Path
If you were real busy paying attention to bikes for the last 20-30 years, then you might have missed Arto Saari's skateboarding career. He was one of the very best,…
TCI Friday – Rubber Match
I don't want to talk to you about tire pressure, not because tire pressure isn't important, but because I've already talked about it so much. I'm just at a point where I'd…
The Master Works
I was in 12th grade English class, breaking down a poem, preparing for the AP English Exam, learning the techniques of the masters and teasing out the ways in which they…
Basic Forensics
She noticed the blood. She was changing the sheets, and she said to me, "Where are you bleeding from?" And I said, "What?" because I was unaware that I had been bleeding at…