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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.
As I said on the Paceline yesterday, I believe sports are just character-driven narrative, and since I spent so much time breaking down the men's Tour on that show, I was!-->…
TCI Friday – Tour 2024
The Tour kicks off tomorrow in Florence, which is in Italy last I checked, and doesn't get to France until Stage 4. That's nothing shocking since the Tour usually starts!-->…
Introducing Mischief Bikes – Your Orthopedist Will Build You a Bike Now
Life is charmingly strange sometimes. For example, here are some seemingly disparate facts of my existence that converged recently and begat the interview that follows.
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A Useful Review – The Wolf Tooth Waveform Pedal
I guess I’ve been on flats on my full-suspension bike for two seasons, and so the pedals I bought initially to see if I could transition away from clipless, a pair of!-->…
Lance
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.!-->…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – Drone Footage
Once upon a time, human people stood as still as they possibly could while a thing called a "camera" exposed "photographic" film to light, so as to make an image. If you!-->…
Video – From Combat Zones to Mountain Trails
I'm fond of saying that the bike is as near to a panacea as humanity has yet discovered, good as a treatment for both individual maladies and societal problems. Here's a!-->…
The Gift of Bikes
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!-->…
Just a Vacuum Cleaner
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!-->!-->!-->…
Video – How to Buy a Mountain Bike
A classic of the genre, a sort of Citizen Kane of taking things less seriously. This one's from IFHT Films, who have made a trove of similarly themed examinations of the!-->…