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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…
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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,…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – Robot
What if the truth were right here in front of you the whole time? What if you discovered that this human person called "Robot" was actually a robot, or more accurately, a…
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I am in favor of performance-enhancing drugs, as long as the performance is mine, and the drugs are coffee and another cup of coffee. Some of my friends don't understand why,…