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.

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Lance

Emlyn Lewis
ESPN released their two-part, three-and-a-half-hour Lance Armstrong documentary, Lance, in 2020, but I just got around to watching it on Netflix. Maybe it just arrived there.…
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The Gift of Bikes

Emlyn Lewis
Last week I mentioned my Welsh grandfather, the dairy farmer. He was a gardener in his later years. That was his real passion, rows of peas and beans, a bed of potatoes, some…
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Just a Vacuum Cleaner

Emlyn Lewis
Issue #2 of Hokem Magazine is out. It's a thing I've been working on with my friend Bob. I mentioned it here before, but with Issue #2 out in the world, I thought I'd…
Op-Ed

TCI Friday

Emlyn Lewis
The song "With a Little Help from My Friends" is a horrible earworm, and I kinda never want to hear it again, even though it expresses one of the great truisms of being a…
Talk

Paceline Podcast 374

Emlyn Lewis
Who do you ride with? Are you a solo artist or a social animal, and how does that evolve over time. Patrick tells us about a jour sans, and how he processes coming up short…

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