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.
It's a complicated time to be alive. And while I have real feelings about the separation of church and state (i.e., they should be), I'll leave those aside, because this is a!-->…
TCI Book Club – Riding in the Zone Rouge
Tom Isitt's Riding in the Zone Rouge is the story of the Tour of the Battlefields, a stage race that went off in 1919 while the peace treaty to end WWI was still being!-->…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – This Chimichanga
With time to reflect on my life choices, it seems obvious that this chimichanga was a bad idea. That I didn't give myself the chance to stop sweating before I started!-->…
Revolting 32
‘70s Dad. This episode is about our dads and how they were different than us in good ways and bad ways. We try to remember the most '70s stuff our dads did, including!-->…
A Scam on 2 Wheels – The VanMoof X3
I should have known better. I broke one of my cardinal rules, and now I'm paying for it. I went online, did some cursory research, and then bought a VanMoof X3 eBike for!-->…
A Useful Review – The Nalgene Wide Mouth Sustain
Reviewing a water bottle is a weird job. Does it leak? No. Cool, so it works. Digging into a feature list is pretty tough, and expressing opinions seems silly, but that's!-->…
On Underbiking
Underbiking is the cycling equivalent of bringing a knife to a gun fight, or as my friend Bruce says, "bringing a butter knife to a knife fight." All of that violence aside,!-->…
Video – Brandon Semenuk RAW 100 Compilation
I watch a lot of slopestyle highlights videos, and so many of them are beautiful and inspiring. In my mind, though, no one rides a line like Brandon Semenuk. No one else!-->…
TCI Friday
I've been to bike events where 100 or so willing riders show up to a bar in the morning, get a short speech and set out on a circuitous route, with no real rest stops, ending!-->…
TCI Book Club – The Order of Time
As a runner and cyclist and hiker, I think about time a lot. I am forever doing math, calculating times to destination or distance, estimating how long I’ll be away from home!-->…