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Robot’s Useless Reviews – The Wrong Bike for This Ride
I thought you said...oh...no...I didn't read the rest of the text thread. I see. Well, sure, ok. We're all here now. The date I brung? That seems like a weird and mildly!-->…
A Useful Review – The Louis Garneau Cycling Inner Shorts
In French (LG is a French-Canadian outfit), these are called short intérieur, which translates directly to 'inner short,' for those of you not fluent in French like moi.!-->…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – The Schrader Valve
You walk into the drugstore, because you need toilet paper and toothpaste, or maybe to refill your scrip for whatever antidepressant you take, and it's December, so Christmas!-->…
A Useful Review – The Lizard Skins Monitor 3 SZN Gloves
Longtime readers will know the difficult relationship I have with gloves. Though I seem to run a solid 10 degrees (F) warmer than normal humans, the one body part I have!-->…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – False Flats
Have you ever been riding along, probably on a road bike, and hit something unexpected, a pothole, some sort of garbage, and been absolutely sure, rolling away, that your!-->…
A Useful Review – Fillo’s Walking Tamales
I'm no food blogger, but I love when I discover a thing that's not meant for cycling but ends up being perfect for cycling, so I'm telling you about these ready-to-eat!-->…
TCI Book Club – Michael Pollan’s Food Rules
If there's anything I hate more than a diet book, it's a LONG diet book. Let's also distinguish a diet, a short-term plan to lose weight, from Diet, the way you eat every!-->…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – Coasting
Do this. Get on a bike, your favorite bike, and find a good flat surface, maybe even a downhill stretch. Now put in two or three hard pedal strokes, then sit up and let the!-->…
A Useful Review – The Fox Speedframe Pro Helmet
I got a new helmet. It had been a few years (and maybe a few crashes), so I was due. I started by really overthinking things, before finally stopping in to see my friends at!-->…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – Balaclavas
Let's get this out of the way right from the top, baklava is a pastry originally made in central Asia, the Levant, and Eastern Europe. It's comprised of layers of flaky!-->…