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.

Op-Ed

TCI Friday

Emlyn Lewis
I told part of a story in a post the other day. It was a story about getting dropped and bonking and then coming back to life and rejoining the group and all of it working…
Page One

After the Fall

Emlyn Lewis
My companions dropped me, slowly but resolutely, with hardly a look back in either anger or pity. And then I was alone on a sun-baked, country road with only the chirping of…
Op-Ed

TCI Friday

Emlyn Lewis
There are certain things, innocuous facts, that say a lot about your cycling life, like if you own more than three bikes, or if you spend one day a year patching tubes, or if…
Page One

Antecycling

Emlyn Lewis
It's pretty hard to separate the bike from its movement. There is a fetish for the bicycle as an object, but that's a secondary way of appreciating the machine, mainly based…
Talk

Revolting 7 Podcast

Emlyn Lewis
The guys delve into mental health struggles, their own experiences, and how the bike works as a therapeutic tool. They touch on heartbreak, depression, anxiety, substance…
Op-Ed

TCI Friday

Emlyn Lewis
As I type, I am keenly anticipating walking my bike onto the ferry, the smell of briny harbor and diesel heavy on the air, then climbing the stairs to the top deck where the…

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