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I worked at Seven Cycles for nine years. My friends built this bike for me. I have undeniable biases about its supremacy as a bicycle, but much (if not absolutely all) of…

I want to be crystal clear on this from the jump. I don’t eat chamois cream. As far as I know, chamois cream is not edible, and anyway it is not sold as ride food. It’s for…

Because my riding has been somewhat erratic due to travel, my weeks of riding have been up and down in terms of the numbers of hours I’ve been on the bike. A couple of weeks…

Guys, I'm going to cut straight to the chase on this one. Chamois butter tastes terrible. It's not good on toast, a scone, an English Muffin. I wouldn't recommend it for…

I’m riding mountain and gravel bikes mostly these days, and those rides tend to be shorter than my old road rides, which often stretched 4-6 hours. I’m out now for 2 or 2-½…

I'm revisiting a gravel tire from Michelin’s Power series, called, obviously enough, the Michelin Power Gravel. I originally reviewed these after riding them on fire roads in…

Tom Isitt's Riding in the Zone Rouge is the story of the Tour of the Battlefields, a stage race that went off in 1919 while the peace treaty to end WWI was still being…

With time to reflect on my life choices, it seems obvious that this chimichanga was a bad idea. That I didn't give myself the chance to stop sweating before I started…

Reviewing a water bottle is a weird job. Does it leak? No. Cool, so it works. Digging into a feature list is pretty tough, and expressing opinions seems silly, but that's…

As a runner and cyclist and hiker, I think about time a lot. I am forever doing math, calculating times to destination or distance, estimating how long I’ll be away from home…