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I never thought I'd get to this place, which is my basement. Wide pine stairs lead down. Too bright LED lighting, courtesy of the hack electrician in residence. A white…

Shimano has completed the overhaul of their MTB groups. Their XTR, Deore XT, SLX and Deore groups have all been upgraded to 12-speeds, use Microspline freehubs and employ a…

You know you have it great when something so stupid bothers you. Either that or you're stupid, which I may be, but I'll leave that to you and the comments section below. …

"This!" C yelled from just ahead of me on the long, loose gravel climb, "This is a sport? This?!?" Our tires zig-zagged in the chunky mess. Progress was slow. "A sport!" he…

Before I type another word I want to address a few important points about this review, useless as it is by design. First, I really loved Tyler Hamilton as a racer. The TDF he…

This is going to seem rude, but hang with me a moment: There are too damn many pro cyclist biographies. As someone who loves memoir as an art form, clunky biographies that…

Holy blessed Jesus, Mary, Joseph, Buddha, Lord Satan, and the Decepticons, I needed this mid-ride coffee. It's a caffeinated beverage and strictly speaking not the wisest…

When I go to any of the crowdfunding platforms, I have zero clue what I'll find. I figure there's a 50 percent chance that whatever I'll find will be crazy, like…

It is interesting to me that the one piece of "equipment" integral to the completion of any long ride gets discussed so little, that we don't talk about chamois (plural and…

In the late 2000s, I went for a mountain bike ride with one of the brightest engineers I've known in the bike industry. I was on a hardtail 29er, still a novelty then, while…