Robot’s Useless Reviews – The Bike Swap
Have you been to the bike swap, a fluorescent, niche Burning Man for the hoarders and hopeful, a flea market where no one is selling tube socks, but water bottles of curious…
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A Movember Moment
The photo above is not what I look like. I am not a moustache-sporting hipster (too old) or an insouciant dandy (too introverted). The photo above represents my best effort…
TCI Friday
A quick note on how TCI Friday works: This is meant to be a forum for our readers to share their thoughts and experiences on their own cycling lives. What I have to say is…
Video: Klunking
It was the '70s and California was pregnant with ideas. Skateboarding was on the rise. Bands like the Eagles and Steely Dan were inventing yacht rock. It was, in many ways,…
Revolting 8 Podcast
Parasites. The guys contemplate their places in the hurl and burl of the bike industry. On the one hand, as a pair of aimless, slackers who love to ghost rides bikes into…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – The Night Moves
This time of year, the gaps at the beginning and end of the day are hemmed in by darkness. I plug a headlight and taillight into a USB port, and pull on an extra layer of…
Video: The Six Day Race – The Story of Marshall ‘Major’ Taylor
Born just a few, short years after the end of slavery in the US, and despite obstacles at nearly every turn, Major Taylor became the first black, American superstar athlete.…
TCI Friday
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…
After the Fall
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…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – Bike Parts
Bike parts seem to come at a real premium these days, because supply chain <word salad>, and global economic <word salad>, and pandemic-driven <word…