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The Angle: Bottom Bracket Drop
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!-->…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – The Tip of the Saddle
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!-->…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – The Screw I Just Dropped
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!-->…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – Chocolate Milk
I don't really want to review chocolate milk, which is a fine thing to drink. I never bought it as a recovery beverage, no matter how many triathletes told me in all!-->…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – The Shoulder Chamois
Writing reviews of things that don't need to be reviewed or are no longer available is useless, but what's even more useless is writing a review of a thing that doesn't exist!-->…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – The Barrel Adjuster
Once upon a time, a human person said "Close, but no banana!" No banana? No banana? First of all, how is it that I'm being compensated in fruit? OK. OK. Fruit is delicious!-->…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – My Favorite Water Bottle
My favorite water bottle is a beguiling olive drab in color with a white graphic on it. It has an orange top. I received this water bottle for completing an arduous event. I!-->…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – The Sharrow
Someone smart once told me that a good relationship wasn't 50/50; it was actually 60/60, requiring both sides to come past halfway to make it work. The Sharrow seems like!-->…
A Kickstarter We Dig
For those of you out there who dig two-wheeled devices with motors (i.e. motorcycles, not ebikes), you've probably seen the emergence of air bag technology in jackets, suits!-->…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – Handlebars
I like to imagine that before handlebars, some bespectacled inventor tried to steer a wheeled machine by way of a rudder. Perhaps they would have named this mythical device!-->…