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 have been thinking an awful lot about cycling advocacy and inclusivity. Why? Because I dream of a self-powered world, one in which all citizens glide around on a bicycle of!-->…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – Mikey, the Life Cereal Kid
Mikey didn't like anything. And can you blame him? It was the '70s and '80s. What was there to like? His parents were wearing bell bottoms and listening to disco. He feared!-->…
TCI Friday
There was a time in my cycling life when I wanted to burrow as deep into the culture as I could, the inside jokes, the inside knowledge, looking just right, knowing all the!-->…
Grambling
This piece appeared originally at Dirt Soul Search.
Through a miasma of mom jokes and sarcasm, we made a plan to ride. It was the weekly plan, but updated for a new day.!-->!-->!-->…
A Journey from His Doorstep – The Photography of Roff Smith
People send me links to articles about cycling, the way my mom used to cut things out of the paper for me. Because I am a terrible person, I usually fail to reply. Either the!-->…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – Luxembourg
Last week I was sitting here in TCI's East Coast office staring blankly out the window, a glistening bead of drool pooling at the corner of my mouth, when I got a call from!-->…
TCI Friday
There is an argument to be made that I was never really in the loop. Despite working in the industry for more than a decade, I've always tucked myself away in a far corner.!-->…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – The Bjarne Riis Diet Plan
The story is very probably apocryphal, but it goes something like this. Back in the dark, bad days of peak blood doping, Bjarne Riis, as manager of a professional bicycle!-->…
TCI Friday
A brand is an idea, an extension of a company's ideals, that gets projected out into the market/world, tested for truth over time, and in positive cases, can serve as a sort!-->…
The Hill I Didn’t Die On
There are no photos of me on that hill. No one captured the moment, coming around the first corner and already out of breath, when I stopped momentarily, put my foot down,!-->…