Giving Your Kids the Gift of Bikes
I've told the story a dozen times by now. When I was eight years old a BMX bike appeared in front of our artificial Christmas tree and changed my life. With the holidays in…
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Video – A Brief History of Bicycle Engineering
You know these things, but maybe you haven't thought about them in exactly this way. In the middle '90s I was involved in a startup that built a stationary bike that modeled…
TCI Friday – Rubber Match
I don't want to talk to you about tire pressure, not because tire pressure isn't important, but because I've already talked about it so much. I'm just at a point where I'd…
Video – Arto Saari: Bike Path
If you were real busy paying attention to bikes for the last 20-30 years, then you might have missed Arto Saari's skateboarding career. He was one of the very best,…
The Master Works
I was in 12th grade English class, breaking down a poem, preparing for the AP English Exam, learning the techniques of the masters and teasing out the ways in which they…
Basic Forensics
She noticed the blood. She was changing the sheets, and she said to me, "Where are you bleeding from?" And I said, "What?" because I was unaware that I had been bleeding at…
Freestyle: The Arrival of the Winter Bird
I started noticing birds. I’m not a bird watcher, binoculars slung around my neck, standing quietly in a marsh, staring at a tree. No. But I’m an avid bird noticer.
This…
Video – L’Eroica 2024
This is cosplay for cyclists. It's LARPing. And some part of me definitely wants to make a sarcastic joke, but actually, these people seem to be having a very fine time. I'll…
TCI Friday – Attention Deficit
It says something about my engagement in the cycling biz and the power of osmotic information gathering, that I know anything at all about the newest bikes and tech hitting…