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Saddle bags aren't the sexiest item on the bike, are they? But here we both are, diving into a saddle bag review. Why? Well, I had one saddle bag for a bunch of years, one I…

I'm tired. I woke up tired. I drank coffee, and nothing much changed. I ate food, and then I felt sleepy. I started working anyway, produced some words and felt tired. I went…

I've gotten a few requests for a recommendation for dropper posts for gravel bikes. For anyone who has looked into this, there aren’t many choices out there because the great…

As my buddy Stevil is wont to point out, cycling can be painfully linear and steadfastly non-creative in many of its professionalized facets. He's not wrong either. Pro road…

I spent last weekend at Kingdom Trails in Vermont riding with friends. We arrived Friday afternoon, dumped our stuff and got in 2-and-a-half hours on the trail before dinner.…

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…