The Good Guilt
Honest to golly, I pictured Fez's face as I sat on the small couch we have in our kitchen, the coffee warm in my hand but not yet raising my spirits. I had been thinking…
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A Useful Review – Winter Essentials Compendium
There are myriad items you can add to your cycling arsenal to make riding through cold weather more pleasurable. This is a challenge our industry has fairly met with wool and…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – The Snot Rocket
I'm not sure how long it was that NASA worked on the Snot Rocket after the success of the Apollo missions. Someone there knew they would never have more political capital…
The Conditions
On any given day in any given place there are a set of conditions, and at the same time, your conditions for immersing yourself in those conditions. For example, in February…
TCI Friday
You know how this works. Read. Comment. It's an interactive thing, a give and take.
In my basement, in the rack I have there, the road bikes are on the left nearest the…
Video – 2023 UCI Cyclocross Worlds
I've come around to the view that Cyclocross (Euro 'cross really) is the most watchable cycling competition, and the most suitable to broadcast on television or internet for…
Muscle Memory
I have heard it said that old pros can still raise their level, defying whatever post-career dip in fitness they've allowed themselves, to ride at something like full pelt…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – The Softride Beam
Someone once told me that when you focus on one aspect of a design, to the exclusion of all others, you end up with the engineering equivalent of a flaming turd. I'm…
Video – Dervla Murphy
Dervla Murphy died last year, at 90. If you don't know who she was, then let this short video introduce you. I was turned on to her work by Julie Snyder. And as it turns out,…
TCI Friday
TCI Friday is a question and answer thing. We pose the question. You give the answers.
I tried to do research and couldn't. Patrick had asked, on The Paceline, about…