Op-Ed

The best bike trick of all time is the wheelie. Don't even come at me. Sure, there are a million tricks harder to do, but the wheelie is the OG. It's trick zero. When I was…

I’m not one to engage routines for the sake of discipline. As the guitarist Robert Fripp said, “Discipline is never an end in itself, only a means to an end.” So while…

I don't want to talk to you about tire pressure, not because tire pressure isn't important, but because I've already talked about it so much. I'm just at a point where I'd…

It says something about my engagement in the cycling biz and the power of osmotic information gathering, that I know anything at all about the newest bikes and tech hitting…

When we take up cycling, be it as a kid, a teen or as an adult, the draw of the bike is going—seeing new places, encountering new terrain, feeling the changing land through…

I am working on an article about washing the bike and waxing my chain. It brought a memory to me from my past. It is not bike related… but think it might make you laugh, so…

I remember thinking, very distinctly, "I hope they don't come back." I'd just been dropped on a long, straight, sunbaked stretch of New Hampshire road. The mistakes had all…

If you'd asked me where I wanted to go the day I bought my touring bike, I couldn't have told you. There was no particular destination in mind, no tour route I wanted to…

My Gripe With Gravel There was a point out there when I said to myself, I’m done with travel events. You’ve been there. You train for months, take time off work, spend…

Even before I rode it, just walking into the living room in the dawn light and seeing a BMX bike on its kickstand in front of the tree, caused synapses to fire in new and…