Robot’s Useless Reviews – Aluminum
Once upon a time in my early teen years, I needed money. I forget what for, but it must have been critically important, because my father suggested I collect aluminum cans…
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The East Coast – West Coast Beef.
This episode is about figuring out which of the Robot/Stevil autonomous units is the correct and original one by dissecting the quality…
The Lemonade Stand
I should have read the signs the night before, when Fez suggested riding later in the morning and closer to home. If I'd followed that thread and joined that ride, I would…
Video – 2023 Giro Donne
Annemiek van Vleuten is retiring at the end of this season, and you could forgive her if she just used the 2023 races as a victory lap on one of the great all-time pro…
Rolling Car Outs
By now you're aware that the Earth's atmosphere is heating at an alarming rate due to an excess of carbon dioxide, the byproduct of more or less every energy burning…
A Force for Good
Historically, I’ve been critical of the bike industry for virtually everything, for the too fast pace of innovation, for the narrow approach to that innovation. Kinda for…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – Burritos
Let's cut to the chase. The burrito is probably one of nature's few perfect foods. Protein, grain, vegetable, dairy, all delicious, and all in its own edible wrapper. A tour…
The Beater Bike
My gateway into adult cycling was a Trek Antelope 800 I bought my sophomore year in college. This was nominally an entry level mountain bike, but I used it exclusively as an…
Revolting 85
The Top Five Ricks. This episode is about Rick Froberg. He was the best Rick. We’ll talk about who some of the other really good Ricks are or were, but really today we’re…
TCI Friday
The Tour de France is as much a parade of chaos as it is a bike race, a testament to the P.T. Barnum maxim, "Nothing draws a crowd like a crowd." And this year's version was…