Attention Deficit Order
Like most human qualities, the quality of our attention exists on a spectrum. Some have an incredible capacity for focus and executive function; others are so incapable of…
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Video – Ridgeline IV: The Dolomites
My biases are pretty obvious sometimes. Gee Atherton, who you see here defying common sense and death simultaneously, is the start athlete for Atherton Bikes, made in…
Gaining Our Religion
We've pooled in the street in front of Chapman's house. He's not ready. He never is, and he's never in a hurry either. So we talk. I think 'banter' is the term. There are…
TSL (Trail as a Second Language)
"Hard right!" I yell over my shoulder, as I saw back onto the line, releasing the brakes. "Rideable! Left hand exit!" This is the language of the lead rider on the trail, or…
Revolting 94
The Greatest Shows on Earth. One of the ways you can tell if you’re not living your life right is if you have stopped going to see live performances of music. Today we’re…
The Mediated Message
We're all just struggling to understand the messages the world is sending us, verbal, aural, psychic. We are always deciphering, interpreting. And, as someone smart once said…
Revolting 93
Solo Breakaways. We’ve both been on trips this last week, and while we met up with and even stayed with friends while we were away, the travel part was all solo, the…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – Vert
I'm not sure when we started including the vertical gain in our description of rides. Certainly, it wasn't a readily accessible statistic in the before-times, when there…
MADE 2023 – Tilting at Windmills
I spent much of last week walking the floor of the MADE bicycle show in Portland, OR, drifting in and out of booths, running my eye over the best work of the best bike…
Revolting 92
One Bike, Two Bike, Red Bike, OK, That’s Enough Bikes.
So this is a weird one, because we’re recording it BEFORE the MADE bike show, which we are both attending, but it is…