Paceline Podcast 420
This week we have Tour de France preview. Who are the contenders for Yellow, Green, Polka and White Jerseys? Patrick finds flow on an eBike and wonders what that means, and…
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A Horrible Sense of Belonging
Conformity. The pressure to fit in. And once we fit in, the pressure to stay there, evolving with the in-group’s ideas. If I rewind to the very beginning, the first days I…
Floating Zero
Where even is the bottom? I have looked. I have rooted around deep in the bucket of myself and never quite gotten there. Oh sure, I've emptied the bucket, bonked,…
Video – Frankenbiking
In 2001, the British write Martin Amis released a collection of essays entitled The War Against Cliche. In it he said, "To idealise: all writing is a campaign against cliche.…
Paceline 418
This week we talk about the bike industry's shortcomings and how riders are complicit in the nonsense. We also take a deep dive on vibration and how bikes deal with it, for…
Giro d’Italia 2025 – 5 Things
The Giro wound up yesterday with a processional into Rome and crowned an unexpected but very worthy winner in Simon Yates. This was a nearly perfect Giro, contested in every…
Video – Big Jim’s Boozy Bike Trip (1976)
I mean, I love a hyped- up mini-documentary about the birth of mountain biking in Marin County or the wilds of Colorado, but here is some dispositive evidence that the…
Ebullition/Doubt 21: Wait, Where am I?
You aren’t wearing that banana shirt again, are you? No, I guess I am not. I mean if I was like most of my peers going to the study club dinner, I would be in a polo shirt…
A New Minimalism
My house has a front door, a back door, a basement door and a garage door. We have ample egress. But you know there are times when I just don't know how to get out of the…
Rolling Meditations
In 2025, I started meditating. It's a thing I'd attempted many times before but was never able to stick with. I could never shake the feeling that I was doing it wrong, that…