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A flat tire is nothing. It is the absence of a thing. A soft tire is still something, maybe a way home if you're lucky, but a flat ceases to be anything. If we step back in…

I was having some hand pain on particularly difficult, technical rides, mainly I think from death gripping as I came into an obstacle and then having to muscle the front end…

It is undeniably satisfying at first. You feed a sheet of paper in the top, a grinding, mechanical sound issues forth, and the paper is converted to ribbony chaff. Naturally,…

As part of my quest to rewild my mountain bike feet, i.e. to learn to ride flat pedals instead of clipless, I've been banging around in the Five Ten Sleuth Mountain Bike…

When I was a kid, I found it improbable that a thing with two wheels, a bicycle, could stand upright with a person on it. In my young mind, that defied reason. As a secondary…

For gravel and hardtail riding I wear the Giro Privateer "mountain bike shoe." The current version is a lace up model. I’ve been riding mine, which are Velcro-and-boa, for…

I'm a sweater. No. Not a cardigan, crew neck or crop top, a prolific perspirant, an excreter of egregious quantities of exercise-induced effluent. When the mercury rises and…

Cosmic Dirt is a small company based in Bellingham, WA whose tagline is Singletrack for All. They’ve got an 'every body on bikes mission,' which results in all their gear…

Howard Carter, the archaeologist who excavated the Tomb of Tutankhamun, and many of his crew endured a series of unfortunate events afterwards, including the death just six…

Since Silca’s re-launch a few years back, everything they have produced has been absolutely top-shelf. The Silca HX-One Home Essential Tool Kit comes with Allen keys that…