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's New York City's Rubber n' Road guys, back again, to show us the kind of riding we can do with a little planning and a little adventure in our hearts. I confess I'm!-->…
Chasing
What if you weren't trying to win a race? What if being on the front wasn't part of the plan?
A large part of life seems to be doing what's expected of us. We get!-->!-->!-->…
Video – Riders of the Night
We live in a world where, quite often, seemingly opposing ideas can both be true. Global warming is making many areas untenable for daily life, let alone mountain biking. At!-->…
TCI Friday – The Worst of It
I remember thinking, very distinctly, "I hope they don't come back." I'd just been dropped on a long, straight, sunbaked stretch of New Hampshire road. The mistakes had all!-->…
Leaf Math
I mark the autumn by falling off my bike more. There is a cruelty to the season, as the heat of summer finally relents and makes all that pedaling easier, but suddenly leaves!-->…
Video – How to Be a Good Cyclist
Everyone loves to be lectured by a dude with a posh British accent. It's like the platonic ideal of the condescending parent scolding us for being rambunctious and/or!-->…
TCI Friday – Your Mind, Blown
Even before I rode it, just walking into the living room in the dawn light and seeing a BMX bike on its kickstand in front of the tree, caused synapses to fire in new and!-->…
Video – Worlds Gravel 2024 Carnage
This is absolute madness, and I love it. Here is an inside-the-race view of Gravel Worlds 2024, all close calls and bike racing ASMR.
A little over ten years ago, when!-->!-->!-->…
TCI Friday – Crosstown Traffic
When you are riding your bicycle in traffic, you should try to concentrate. Really, everyone present should be concentrating on the job at hand, because it doesn't take much!-->…
Darwin’s Bicycle
Darwin's On the Origin of Species was published in 1859. Across the English Channel, Pierre Michaux and Pierre Lallement were inventing what we think of today as the bicycle.!-->…