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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.

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The Hardest Trail

Emlyn Lewis
There is a crazy stretch of trail through the center of my town. The surface is paved, but badly. The boulders are huge and most of them are moving at erratic speeds. The…
Talk

Revolting 50

Emlyn Lewis
A Race to the Bottom. This episode is about racing bicycles, what’s good about it, what’s bad about it, when we’ve enjoyed it, when we’ve hated it. Oh, and today's…
Op-Ed

TCI Friday

Emlyn Lewis
TCI Friday works when you participate, like marriage counselling or the tango, or democracy. By this time, I have written this Friday discussion column hundreds of times.…
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The Big Bounce

Emlyn Lewis
There is a theory of the universe's beginning and end (sort of) called the Big Bounce. For those of you familiar with the Big Bang, the Big Bounce posits that just as our…
Talk

Revolting 49

Emlyn Lewis
You Can’t Go Home Again. This episode is about hometowns, the good, the bad, and the ugly and what happens when we go back to visit, because you can never go home again.…

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