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.
I'm summered out. I've pushed and I've pedaled and I've sweated straight through this season. Gross. It's gotten so I'm sweating before I get out the door, the perspiration!-->…
Revolting Podcast 4
Robot and Stevil talk about going places by bike, all the good places, the weird places. Messengering. Seizures. Playing Tempest at the K-Mart arcade. Trespassing. Mountain!-->…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – Intervals
I am dying. Demonstrably. My heartrate is on an upward trajectory that can only end in my body's engine blowing its head gasket, but instead of white smoke billowing out from!-->…
TCI Friday
We've talked about food a bit recently. I like food. Food tastes good. But you know, once you establish some bad habits, they're hard to break. That's what makes eating!-->…
Paceline Tandem: Phil Cavell
Phil racing at Eastway in 1994.
In this episode of the Paceline Tandem, we speak with Phil Cavell, author of The MidLife Cyclist, a book that shows the way forward for!-->!-->!-->…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – EnergyDrink
What product on the market today holds out greater hope of usefulness than an energy drink? ENERGY!!! We all need it. We all want it. We know, just know, deep down in our!-->…
TCI Friday
Most of my riding of late is with friends, rather than the meditative solo rambling I gravitate to naturally. Riding with other people means riding a little faster and a!-->…
Revolting Podcast 3
What's Wrong with Cycling? Stevil and Robot wonder why cyclists insist on siloing themselves and how cycling turned into a middle-class white person thing, at least as far as!-->…
Book Review: The MidLife Cyclist by Phil Cavell
Phil Cavell is a world-renowned bike fitter who, together with co-founder Julian Wall, runs Cyclefit in Covent Garden, London. On top of tens-of-thousands of bike fits,!-->…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – The Tip of the Saddle
I have become convinced that the modern saddle is fundamentally flawed, specifically that the shape we have all become inured to is, in fact, wrong. This idea has been!-->…