Robot’s Useless Reviews – Top Tubes
The world is full of amazing tubes. When I was a kid people talked about test tube babies a lot. You would need great tubes for that. You'd also apparently want a better term…
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A Bad Ride, A Good Adventure
The sign read "BRIDGE OUT," and two tall, orange traffic cones blocked the way. Google Maps flickered and rerouted to a dirt road off to the right. This dirt road had a name,…
Revolting 84
It Rubs Us the Wrong Way. We have some nice, expensive bike stuff and we have some cheap, functional bike stuff. It seems like no matter how carefully we curate our…
A Useful Review – The Gore Fernflow Liner Shorts+
Most readers will know how much energy I devote to thinking about gloves, but liners are a growing source of interest. I wear them on the gravel bike. I wear them on the…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – The Tour de France
Some objects in space are so gravitationally massive that light bends as it passes by them. The Tour de France is like that too, in that it has changed the trajectory of bike…
A Thought Experiment
What if there were no cars? What if we'd invented the internal combustion engine, but then realized that it spewed too much toxic bullshit to put into regular use? What if…
Revolting 83
You Light Up My Life. We’ve talked about the things that inspire us before, but we were possibly less inspired when we did that than we are now. So, we’re going to talk about…
A Useful Review – Tour de France Unchained
Netflix has pioneered a new category of entertainment, the sports docuseries. The first one I watched was Sunderland Til I Die. Football (as opposed to handegg) is my other…
My Conspiracy Theory
I have probably just doomed TCI to all sorts of Google and social media excommunication, but I just have to share this feeling I have, that reality is not at all what it…