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.
This episode is about the good news that Stevil no longer looks like a gorilla. Also, the guys talk about what the rules are and how closely or not you should follow them.!-->…
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I am the luckiest guy you know. I do what I want. I work with people I like and trust.!-->!-->!-->…
Video – Hard Grit – Craig Evans
This video combines a lot of my favorite things: deep, green woods; mountain biking; a lunatic; and jaw-dropping finesse in wildly improbable conditions. There are a million!-->…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – Sleep
Sleep is a seminal stoner, doom metal band featuring Al Cisneros, Matt Pike (later of High on Fire) and a rotating cast of drummers. Their magnum opus is the hourlong track!-->…
Away
It only happened once or twice. I made a sort of kamikaze effort to get off the front of the group, the result of some combination of my own recklessness and everyone else's!-->…
Revolting 23
This is episode is about the events that made us change the way we do things. It is notoriously difficult to change people’s minds about things. First, what sorts of thing!-->…
Video – History of BMX Racing
Sit yourself down. Class is in session. The Dutch invented BMX, bicycle moto-cross, not the Californians, even if On Any Sunday did herald its arrival as a cultural!-->…
TCI Friday
TCI Friday is meant to be a participatory activity. I do a little dance here at the beginning, and then I pose a question. The game works best if you put your thoughts in the!-->…
A Useful Review – The Rapha Crew Neck Knit Jumper
Look, there's no use denying that there is a subtext whenever discussing Rapha. They have a reputation as this snobby Euro-phile brand, ads filled with photos of grizzled!-->…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – The Hammer
Your long-term success as a cyclist will likely involve gaining some familiarity with tools, when, and how, to use them. Today we will consider one of the more poorly!-->…