TCI Friday
Piggybacking on a conversation we had on The Paceline this week, I'm curious how you feel about the various incarnations of bike riding available to us, riding indoors alone…
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The Paceline Podcast 321
This week we delve into the merits of riding alone or in a group, inside or out, with a detour to discuss the challenges of introversion. We also have a PSA for some of the…
Margin Walkers
I wrote this for Red Kite Prayer in 2013, but the song remains the same in 2023.
I was a middle-class kid, as tormented by boredom as by the peer pressure of my preppy…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – Carbs
'Carb' is a truncation of carbohydrate, but also of carburetor. So we'll engage a little creative disambiguation between these things without ever, even once, thinking about…
TCI Friday
You know the deal. I ask the questions. You give the answers, like an interrogation, but without the bad cop.
As I explained on The Paceline this week, Evel Knievel was…
Video – The Huffmaster Hopper 2023
I'm not generally going to be posting DNF efforts here, but Padraig references the Grasshopper gravel series pretty often on the Paceline, and I found this survey of (most…
In the Teeth
It was one of those classic, New England, omnidirectional headwinds. We'd screamed down the hill to the main drag, my eyes streaming despite my glasses, and my face contorted…
That Place
I couldn't begin to explain to someone who hasn't been there, what is good about that place. It's a benighted place, but a simpler one as well. When you're there, maybe you…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – Quick Release
In the days when you were fixing flats more often, quick release was a real savior. Not only did it save you time, it kept you from having to carry wrenches around with you,…