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 accused my wife of being un-coachable. This is not, as you might imagine, a great conversational ploy, but we have been married a long time and our individual foibles are!-->…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – My Favorite Water Bottle
My favorite water bottle is a beguiling olive drab in color with a white graphic on it. It has an orange top. I received this water bottle for completing an arduous event. I!-->…
TCI Friday
I've been falling off my bike a fair bit lately, probably too much, which either means I don't have the skills I imagine I do, or I don't have them anymore. None of these!-->…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – The Sharrow
Someone smart once told me that a good relationship wasn't 50/50; it was actually 60/60, requiring both sides to come past halfway to make it work. The Sharrow seems like!-->…
TCI Friday
What's funny is that I was thinking about this week's question even before Padraig brought it up on the Paceline the other day. OK, he didn't bring up this exact question.!-->…
Girls Gotta Eat Dirt
Ripton Co. makes jorts. I don't own a pair of jorts, but I'm gonna get some, because obviously they make you fully and completely rad. This video, in fact, inspired me so!-->…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – Handlebars
I like to imagine that before handlebars, some bespectacled inventor tried to steer a wheeled machine by way of a rudder. Perhaps they would have named this mythical device!-->…
TCI Friday
I stopped, because we all stopped maybe. I'm not sure why we stopped. When grambling, you don't need a great reason to stop, because stopping is just part of it. Also, the!-->…
Solo Work – Off Canvas
I came upon an old woman pushing her bike. We were near the place where the secondary bike path, the one most people don’t use, turns into a trail. We were the only ones out!-->…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – This Stupid Pump
This stupid pump is not going to inflate this stupid tire. I'm not sure who designed the head on this thing, but it is not going to clamp the valve stem and even if it!-->…