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.…
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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…
The Fog of (Trade) War
I have hesitated to write anything about the economic state of the bike business lately, for two reasons. First, most of our readers aren't that interested. They wanna ride…
Just a Couple of Dirty Words
In the superlative-heavy world of bicycle marketing there are two words a copywriter tries to avoid, and those words are 'heavy' and 'compliant.' Take those crayons out of…
The Fun Mix
A bike will do a lot of things for you. It’ll move you from one place to another. It’ll give you an adventure. It’ll make you healthier. It’ll help you connect with other…