Video – Worlds Gravel 2024 Carnage
This is absolute madness, and I love it. Here is an inside-the-race view of Gravel Worlds 2024, all close calls and bike racing ASMR.
A little over ten years ago, when…
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TCI Friday – Crosstown Traffic
When you are riding your bicycle in traffic, you should try to concentrate. Really, everyone present should be concentrating on the job at hand, because it doesn't take much…
Darwin’s Bicycle
Darwin's On the Origin of Species was published in 1859. Across the English Channel, Pierre Michaux and Pierre Lallement were inventing what we think of today as the bicycle.…
Revolting 149
Natural Born Killers. There are aliens among us, people endowed with extraordinary abilities and no fucks to give. They don’t need expensive equipment. They don’t need a very…
TCI Friday – The Self-Riding Bicycle
"All life is suffering," said the Buddha, the first of the Four Noble Truths, which is why we have technology (I'm cutting out roughly 2500 years of history for editorial…
Video – Revolutions: A short documentary about bike waste
This one is a bit longer than the videos I tend to post for your Friday enjoyment, attention spans being what they are now, but I think it's an important watch for those of…
How to Dodge Bullets
The bullets come flying, but at this point in the film, you know they're not going to kill the chosen one, Neo, Keanu Reeves in a leather trench coat. Instead, the bullets…
Video – Colors of Mexico
I am an unabashed lover of Mexico and the Mexican people. Because some of my best friends in the world are Mexican, I have been fortunate to spend long stretches of time…
TCI Friday – The Bars We Hang Around
I cringe when I hear people use this formulation, though it's one I've used once or twice myself. It goes like this, "There are two types of people..." If there were two…
The New Road Culture
We had a comment not too many months back from a longtime reader who said, in effect, he was going to stop reading the site, because he thought it had become too gravel and…