The Bikes These Days
I tell you, the bikes these days. How do you even understand them. As "bike nerds" have gotten nerdier, putting together more and more specialized (pun entirely intended)…
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Video – History of the Hautacam
This year's Tour de France goes to the legendary Hautacam climb on Stage 12. Many are expecting the race to blow up there. It's long and steep and attritional, tailor made…
Feeling the Need for Speed
Let's talk about what we feel when we ride a bicycle. The truth is what we feel isn’t necessarily what we’re experiencing. And if that sounds odd, let me start by giving you…
The Physical Politics of the Thing
‘Politics' as a general term describes the way groups make decisions about issues that affect that group. Some of this decision making is deliberative, as you might see in…
Video – The World’s Best Descender
I think I'm pretty good at going downhill on a bike. As anecdotal evidence, my friends always send me down a steep, technical trail first (though in retrospect this might be…
A Useful Review – Levi’s XX Tech Chino Shorts
If I come across another pair of pants or shorts that "transitions seamlessly from the office to the trail," I'm gonna throw up in my own mouth. That said, I get it. We don't…
Tour de France Hommes – 2025 Preview
It's less than two weeks from the Grand Departe in Lille for the start of the Tour de France 2025 on July 5th, and so here's a brief preview to orient you, in case you…
Paceline Podcast 420
This week we have Tour de France preview. Who are the contenders for Yellow, Green, Polka and White Jerseys? Patrick finds flow on an eBike and wonders what that means, and…
A Horrible Sense of Belonging
Conformity. The pressure to fit in. And once we fit in, the pressure to stay there, evolving with the in-group’s ideas. If I rewind to the very beginning, the first days I…
Floating Zero
Where even is the bottom? I have looked. I have rooted around deep in the bucket of myself and never quite gotten there. Oh sure, I've emptied the bucket, bonked,…