Op-Ed

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…

Freestyle is what it sounds like, a departure from the rigid structure of our Monday through Friday bike banter, a chance to explore other topics, other formats, and other…

When you are riding your bicycle in traffic, you should try to concentrate. Really, everyone present should be concentrating on the job at hand, because it doesn't take much…

I've been thinking about trail days. And I’m scanning this through the lens of my own selfish past. I hate to admit it, but in my 20s and 30s I didn’t do a single trail day.…

"All life is suffering," said the Buddha, the first of the Four Noble Truths, which is why we have technology (I'm cutting out roughly 2500 years of history for editorial…

Once upon a time I raced. Translated that means that if I was not at work I was riding - or better said - training. If you race/raced you know. All focus is on training: on…

I cringe when I hear people use this formulation, though it's one I've used once or twice myself. It goes like this, "There are two types of people..." If there were two…

Sadly, I see that JonBenet Ramsey is once again in the news. Netflix plans a documentary on it, and some news agencies are reporting that there might be new DNA testing…