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In 1990 Shimano brought their Shimano Pedaling Dynamics (SPD) to the world. From the full name, you would expect it to be more than a clipless pedal and a two-bolt cleat,…

I hope you don't own a cone wrench, or god-forbid, a whole set of cone wrenches. That's the cyclist equivalent of having a VCR or a landline, almost charmingly anachronistic…

Last year I reviewed Coefficient Cycling's first offering, the Wave Handlebar. It is a bar aimed, primarily, at gravel riders (though it works fine for road use), and staked…

This review is not a platform for toilet humor, so those of you who disdain that sub-genre need not click away. This review is about the intersection of a failing body and…

There is an element of the product review which is a baseline question of epistemology, i.e. how can we know things? If I can't see, feel, and/or sniff a thing, can I know it…

When a builder or engineer begins designing a bike, besides bottom bracket drop, one of the first dimensions of a bike they will set will be head tube angle. I've spoken with…

I am dying. Demonstrably. My heartrate is on an upward trajectory that can only end in my body's engine blowing its head gasket, but instead of white smoke billowing out from…

The Angle is a new series of posts here at TCI that will delve into the geometry of bikes. From road to mountain to gravel, we will look at how the dimensions of a bike…

I have become convinced that the modern saddle is fundamentally flawed, specifically that the shape we have all become inured to is, in fact, wrong. This idea has been…

There it went, slipping from betwixt thumb and forefinger, glinting briefly in the basement's halogen light, and then disappearing into a realm beyond the physical, a place…