Revolting 27
Get Off My Lawn. Herein we grapple with the idea that things actually did used to be better than they are now. But which "back in the day" was the best day? Then we do some…
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Video – Born from Junk – Outlaw Origins of Mountain Biking
Here's a fresh little number from Freehub Magazine about the origins of mountain biking in Colorado. Freehub is doing some really interesting and cool stuff, like this, so…
TCI Friday
It seems like the week of the eBike in my life. My own is down currently with a bad battery. More on that story as it develops. Padraig and I talked about them a whole lot…
Environmentalism Re-mixed
Humans are not good at large-scale collective effort. We are selfish and short-sighted by design. We struggle to understand proper scale and are prone to dismissing our own,…
The Siren Song of Suffering
I wouldn't have said I'm this kind of guy, the try-hard, the Type A. I'm not. I'm not. I think instead I've fallen prey to the siren song of suffering, the idea that, unless…
A Useful Review – The Kuat Sherpa 2.0 Rack
I rode with some friends this morning and one asked me what I thought of my rack, a Kuat Sherpa 2.0. I said, “Man, I love this rack,” which is the first time I’ve articulated…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – This Blood
My apologies to the squeamish, but as bike riders, I suspect we are mostly used to stuff like this. It's also worth point out that I pinged Stevil as I was working on this. I…
Revolting 26
I See You Are Also Wearing a Black T-Shirt. This episode is about t-shirts. If that seems dumb to you, then clearly, you’ve not listened to this podcast before. As it turns…
Zooming In
I don't remember a lot about the first hour. We'd been side-by-side on a stretch of old rail bed, one of the few corridors like it that hasn't been paved, moving at a…
TCI Friday
One of my stock bike jokes is this: Every year I like riding with one fewer companion than I did the year before, and last year I was at two. That makes me sound much…