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A Useful Review – The Spy Optic Bounty
You don't need a pair of glasses with clear lenses, unless maybe you do. I bought these originally as riding glasses for darkness and low light. I prefer to ride with glasses!-->…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – Sleep
Sleep is a seminal stoner, doom metal band featuring Al Cisneros, Matt Pike (later of High on Fire) and a rotating cast of drummers. Their magnum opus is the hourlong track!-->…
A Useful Review – The Rapha Crew Neck Knit Jumper
Look, there's no use denying that there is a subtext whenever discussing Rapha. They have a reputation as this snobby Euro-phile brand, ads filled with photos of grizzled!-->…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – The Hammer
Your long-term success as a cyclist will likely involve gaining some familiarity with tools, when, and how, to use them. Today we will consider one of the more poorly!-->…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – Cantilever Brakes
The first clue is in the name. Cant. Can't. Cannot. And levers are involved. The whole contraption is a lever that cannot do what it was designed to do. Brake, in this!-->…
A Useful Review – The Theragun Mini
Oh, how I love to be percussed. Frankly, my younger self did not foresee ever writing a review of a massage tool at any point in my cycling career, but when you ride as much!-->…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – Bells
A bicycle bell has a sort of Norman Rockwell vibe to it, echoes of a simpler time, when the ding-ding-ding of a paper carrier might have alerted folks that good news was!-->…
Look X-Track En-Rage Plus Pedal
In gravel riding, the pedal of choice is generally a small-bodied SPD pedal. The thinking goes: a gravel bike is plenty heavy, so use a minimal pedal to keep weight down. And!-->…
A Useful Review – The Tifosi Dolomite 2.0 Sunglasses
Skipping the niceties and wink-wink cuteness of my usual opening sentences, there are 3 reasons I like these glasses. First, they’re vented. I have a big fogging problem with!-->…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – The Squeeze Test
My pump, a Park Tools PFP-4 professional floor pump, has an analog pressure gauge mounted high, near the top of the chamber. I can't really read it anymore, because my eyes!-->…