Video – Petty Larceny is So French
What even is the Tour de France? From its origins through its evolution to whatever it is today, the Tour has never been just one thing. The original organizer and racers…
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A Useful Review – The Giro Trixter Glove
The Giro Trixter full-finger glove costs $20. That's no way to start a review, because it's just a piece of information instead of an evaluative judgement, but cycling, as a…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – Speed
The theatrical release, in 1994, of the film Speed marked the arrival of Sandra Bullock as a Hollywood lead actress and began Keanu Reeves' career as an action star. Sadly,…
The New Hybrids
We all want more bikes! We all want fewer bikes! How to reconcile the truth of N+1 (the perfect number of bikes, wherein N is the number of bikes you own currently) with the…
TCI Friday
We were rolling along, me perched near the front of the banana seat, him running beside, one hand on the back of the seat, the other on the handlebars, and suddenly I…
Video – Dolgoch
Regular readers will know that I am an unabashed promoter of the place my father was born and most of my family still lives, Wales. It's a wild, magical place with a whole…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – Significant Others
Yesterday, my wife and I celebrated 30 years of continuous companionship. She has, quite literally, shepherded me from my awkward and troubled late adolescence into this…
Revolting 17
The guys make a format change in an effort to bring the maniacal chaos of their tangential digressions under control. This is a lightning round pile of questions that…
Video – Keirin: Speed Racers
Part track race, part roller derby, part outtake from Power Rangers, Keirin racing is fantasta-magical. That's my own word, so TM. Keirin means "racing bicycle," and the…
TCI Friday
I glanced to my left as I cruised down the street and spied a mockingbird, its long tail feathers canted upward, perched on the edge of a birdbath. Round the next corner, the…