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Look, I don't have a bike that will take 20" magnesium alloy wheels anymore, but there is something deep inside me, perhaps a seed planted in 1978, that has grown into a…

Often on a Monday morning you’ll find me staring blankly at the wall of nutrition bars at the Whole Foods down the hill from my house. I’ve eaten a lot of them and found the…

The American Classic Kimberlite is a tire that hews to my taste in tires intended for mixed-surface riding. It begin with a center slick section, moves to a slight…

This week I’m returning to a wheel I’ve been riding for three years now, the ENVE G23. This is a gravel wheel with a carbon fiber rim with a 23mm inner width. They have only…

Hot weather is the new weather, and if you sweat like I do, you spend a lot of time thinking about how to stay cool on the bike. As most of my rides are now dirt focused,…

I'm not sure when we started including the vertical gain in our description of rides. Certainly, it wasn't a readily accessible statistic in the before-times, when there…

I like a good sports documentary. Sports themselves, I always contend, are just extended, character-driven narratives. They're improvisational to a degree, but the characters…

I’m encountering more people on the bike paths these days when I do post-work rides. I do a lot of easy rides on flat bike paths because I’m trying to burn fat and…

RUI stands for repetitive use injury. It's the injury that happens while you're just doing what you always do. No need to go over the bars. No need to tag a tree with your…

You know, out of the gate, I'm not going to be giving saddles sores a positive review, at least not for their primary function, which is to ruin your life. There are charming…