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.

Talk

Revolting 42

Emlyn Lewis
Episode 42 – Live, Laugh, Love. This episode is about what inspires and motivates us, and about what sort of inspiration and motivation we're trying to put out into the…
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Letter from the Editors

Emlyn Lewis
Hello Friends, Just us, checking in from the end of summer (unless you're one of our Southern Hemisphere readers...we're not trying to be hemispherist). It's been a busy…
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Line Choice

Emlyn Lewis
On any surface, there is a line of least resistance for your bicycle. Let's call this the A line. On pavement, the A line may be wide and not something you need to think…
Op-Ed

TCI Friday

Emlyn Lewis
TCI Friday works best when you play along. Read, comment. Heckle. Whatever. But get involved. I need a new mountain bike helmet. Maybe I just want a new helmet. Yes. I…
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Souplesse

Emlyn Lewis
Literally: suppleness, softness, flexibility, adaptability, fluidity. On the bike: smoothness, a one-ness with the machine. Think of a climber dancing away on that steep…
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Going Flat

Emlyn Lewis
For the last few months, I've been in the process of transitioning my mountain bike riding from clipless pedals to flats. For those of you still clipping on the trail, I'm…

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