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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…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – Roads
I stepped off the paved part of the road onto the gravelly verge and pulled the dog next to me as a car came barreling past. The roadway was lined with young kids carrying…
The Best Upgrade for Your Bike: A New Set of Wheels
After writing a week or two back that now is a great time to buy a new bike, due primarily to a glut of inventory on the supply chain, I got the question, what sorts of…
Revolting 82
The Lightning Strikes Twice Round. Here we go again, another ride on the Tilt-a-Whirl, another slam fandango on the ADD magic carpet. Ten questions each. Ten rambling,…