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Before I type another word I want to address a few important points about this review, useless as it is by design. First, I really loved Tyler Hamilton as a racer. The TDF he…

This is going to seem rude, but hang with me a moment: There are too damn many pro cyclist biographies. As someone who loves memoir as an art form, clunky biographies that…

Holy blessed Jesus, Mary, Joseph, Buddha, Lord Satan, and the Decepticons, I needed this mid-ride coffee. It's a caffeinated beverage and strictly speaking not the wisest…

When I go to any of the crowdfunding platforms, I have zero clue what I'll find. I figure there's a 50 percent chance that whatever I'll find will be crazy, like…

It is interesting to me that the one piece of "equipment" integral to the completion of any long ride gets discussed so little, that we don't talk about chamois (plural and…

In the late 2000s, I went for a mountain bike ride with one of the brightest engineers I've known in the bike industry. I was on a hardtail 29er, still a novelty then, while…

Testing words by Nathan Kitchen. Specialized is certainly a consistent name in the bicycle tire market. Through the years the bike brand has produced line-up after…

It might be clear at this point that I find a particular inspiration and glee in the objects cycling takes from other walks of life (who would walk?!?!) and makes them ours,…

The first and best use for the "milk crate" is actually to hold records, so I don't know why it's still called a milk crate. It might also be called "your college book case"…

I came of age when the Hite-Rite was the thing you added to your mountain bike to tell the world you were a badass descender. It was, in fact, not nearly as useful as it…