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.
Real talk, you don't need a new bike. Your presence here, on this site, reading this post, imply strongly that you have a bike and probably more than one. This is a!-->…
Revolting 41
This Is Your Life. This episode is slightly different than our normal meandering nonsense. Today we’re going to get to know each other via a single song and a single bike for!-->…
TCI Friday
TCI Friday works best when you participate. This is meant to be a conversation. Converse!
A few years ago, I bought a cheap bike rack for my basement. The walls down there!-->!-->!-->…
Video – Life of Pie
Here's a nice story about a pair of ladies who made themselves a home and then made a home for other people. That's all well and good, because nice people doing nice things!-->…
You Are Subsumed
You think you are you, but you are not. Hundreds of thousands of bacteria, microbes, and other hangers on ride around with you every hour of every day, on your skin, in your!-->…
Trail Eyes
If you've ever seen a professional tracker work, you'll know they see things we don't, a slight indentation in a bed of leaves, a stray broken twig, a tuft of fur in the bark!-->…
A Useful Review – The Giro Privateer
For gravel and hardtail riding I wear the Giro Privateer "mountain bike shoe." The current version is a lace up model. I’ve been riding mine, which are Velcro-and-boa, for!-->…
It’s OK
Your bike doesn't care how you ride it. It has no feelings on the subject, and anyone else who might have thoughts or feelings about your riding are just static on the radio.!-->…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – Sweat
I'm a sweater. No. Not a cardigan, crew neck or crop top, a prolific perspirant, an excreter of egregious quantities of exercise-induced effluent. When the mercury rises and!-->…
Revolting 40
Manual Labor. This episode is about how punk rock a hard day’s work is, or actually it’s more about how manual labor shaped us and how it is fundamentally different than the!-->…