Op-Ed

When I write, I do so to an imaginary ideal reader. That reader is smart, smarter than me, well-read, funny and devoted to cycling in a way we devote ourselves to anything…

What's wrong with you? I usually leave the question until the end, you know, to build some suspense, to be a little coy, maybe even flirty, but it's straight to business…

One conversation I've had a few times recently, with a few different bike shop owners, is about the lack of differentiation in the road bike market over the last couple…

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…

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…