Author
Emlyn Lewis
Robot fell in love with cycling watching the older neighborhood kids ride wheelies down the street. It was the early '70s, and Evel Knievel was jumping motorcycles over buses. Everything seemed possible. From that moment, the die was cast (iacta alia est).
He studied philosophy in college, of course he did. That's what idealists do, romantics, kids who think there must be a better way. At the same time, bikes were carrying him everywhere, delivering all of life's gifts and surprises. Occasionally he crashed and didn't mind.
There is no reason for me to be bike crazy. Humans tend to follow their parents. Are your parents Catholics, Muslims, Zoroastrians? Most of the time, you will be too. Sure,!-->…
A Useful Review – Bobo’s Oat Bar Stuff’d Bites
I spend a fair amount of time staring blankly at the wall of energy bars at the grocery store. I’ve tried almost all of them, and I have my favorites, but I also feel kinda!-->…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – Multi-Use Paths
You've got to be careful what you wish for sometimes, eh? I'm one of the fortunate few whose town has a well-maintained bike path that runs from one end to the other,!-->…
Paris-Roubaix – Ride to Survive
I'm no Formula 1 fan, but I watched the Netflix doc Formula 1 - Drive to Survive and found it interesting. Motorsports are apex climate change denialism, to me, a global!-->…
Video – Paris Roubaix Appetizers
Paris-Roubaix is less a bike race than a sort of Mad Max Roller Derby. Oh, there are bikes, and there is strategy, but what you get more often than not is spectacle,!-->…
TCI Friday
You know how this works. It's an audience participation thing. I set a scene, ask a question, and you answer below. It's how we get to know each other. It's how we figure out!-->…
The Plight of the Jumbo Shrimp
The jumbo shrimp doesn't know what it is, despite having quite complex sensory and processing organs. Brine shrimp think they're Sea MonkeysTM, so it stands to reason that!-->…
Pavlov’s Dogs
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was an experimental neurologist (among other smart guy stuff) who discovered what's called classical conditioning, basically the association through!-->…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – Half-Wheeling
OK. I titled this (entirely useless) review "half-wheeling," when its proper name is "filthy half wheeling." If you don't know what I'm talking about, I want you to look in!-->…
Video – How to Win Tour of Flanders
Well, here we are on the eve of the Tour of Flanders, the legendary race of Flandrian cobbled climbs (as opposed to Paris-Roubaix which races over flat cobbles). Flanders is!-->…