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Robot’s Useless Reviews – Turn Signals
I learned cycling turn signals sitting cross-legged (what the kids these days call 'crisscross applesauce') on the floor of the school library at a bicycle safety class in!-->…
Kickstarters We Dig
In the time I've spent spelunking the depths of Kickstarter (as well as Indiegogo) I've found that I can categorize a majority of the products I've encountered in two broad!-->…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – Mikey, the Life Cereal Kid
Mikey didn't like anything. And can you blame him? It was the '70s and '80s. What was there to like? His parents were wearing bell bottoms and listening to disco. He feared!-->…
Worth the Wait: Pirelli Cinturato
As new technologies go, tubeless tires didn't have what I'd call the smoothest rollout. For mountain bikes, the improvement was apparent, even if setup wasn't always easy.!-->…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – Luxembourg
Last week I was sitting here in TCI's East Coast office staring blankly out the window, a glistening bead of drool pooling at the corner of my mouth, when I got a call from!-->…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – The Bjarne Riis Diet Plan
The story is very probably apocryphal, but it goes something like this. Back in the dark, bad days of peak blood doping, Bjarne Riis, as manager of a professional bicycle!-->…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – Robot
What if the truth were right here in front of you the whole time? What if you discovered that this human person called "Robot" was actually a robot, or more accurately, a!-->…
Boxer in a Suit: the Panaracer GravelKing SS
My taste in gravel tires runs counter to much of what I see other riders opt for. Lining up for the start of some elective masochism, I tend to see riders trade width for!-->…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – The Internet
Instagram desperately wants to sell me a pair of pants. In fact, if I didn't know better, I'd say Instagram is a pants store. Oh sure, they show me pictures of people riding!-->…
Robot’s Useless Reviews – Knee Warmers
Knee warmers are a stupid piece of clothing. There. The cat's out of the bag. We're still in the first paragraph. We only just got the cat into the bag, hissing and!-->…