A Useful Review – Giordana Warmers
With the looming departure of daylight saving time, I decided to take a look at some warmers for colder weather. My pick this week are the arm, knee and leg warmers from…
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A Useful Review – The 5.10 Sleuth DLX Shoes
After a full season in the 5.10 Sleuth flat pedal shoe (reviewed here), I have recently upgraded to the Sleuth DLX. The shoes are cosmetically very similar, but the DLX model…
TCI Friday
Allow me to describe for you, a coin with two sides, as if there is any other kind.
On side one, you have a riding companion who is not having the best day, either by…
Bash and Pop
Bash and Pop isn't just the rock band Tommy Stinson put together after the Replacements broke up. It's also a rudimentary technique for clearing obstacles on a bike on a…
Video – Chris Akrigg – Remnants
I don't normally post videos on Tuesdays, but there's a new Chris Akrigg video here, and I'm an unabashed fan of this guy's riding. Here are three minutes of naturalist,…
Revolting 100
The $64 Ka-Billion Dollar Pyramid. If you follow us on social media, you’ll know that, for our 100th episode we besought 100 listener questions, so now we’re gonna answer…
Video – The Shore
I'm a daydreamer. And when I daydream, I daydream this.
One of my Welsh cousins did a world tour in her twenties. She went everywhere. And when she stopped off with me in…
TCI Friday
I want to design a pair of bike shorts with the nice people at Dickies. They already have a line of skateboarding apparel. Why not some bike stuff too?
I took a pair of…
Gardening Is the Point of Gardening
You wouldn't expect me to be discussing the yield of our home garden, but I found myself at a table with two friends who care an awful lot about how many tomatoes, heads of…
TCI Friday
The bike-related injury (BRI) that kept me off the bike the longest was a cracked collarbone (which led to frozen shoulder) that took me out of circulation for four or five…