Op-Ed

The end of the year is a time to take stock, to look back, blah, blah, yadda. We've heard it all before. But seriously, how often do we take an inventory of any aspect of our…

TCI Friday is a participation game. Read the topic below. Then throw in your two cents. Or ten. Je ne sais quoi is French for "I don't know what," or more colloquially…

Cycling has taught me a great many lessons. Some of the lessons it has taught me I didn't want to learn. Discipline? Pfft. Consistency? Thpppt. Determination? Urgh. I didn't…

Historically, the most valuable things in the world have been useful things, like copper, saffron, good steel, nuclear fissile material, etc. I count myself wealthy in as…

I know a few people who ride one kind of bike in one kind of way, their whole lives, like they've found a sweet spot so sweet they never want anything else. I think that must…

For much of the last year I’ve been researching the development of ebikes here in the U.S. Yes, I’m grateful for ebikes, but that’s not where this is going. The development…

It's a classic trope of the tough-guy genre of film. The bad guys jump the good guy, and one of them holds him while the others work him over. It's not personal, you…

The funny thing about cargo pants is that very seldom are they actually transporting any cargo. What a strange flex it is indeed to walk around flaunting your capacity for…

The primary rule of storytelling: Make it interesting. I’m reminded of that as I laugh at its folly on our recent visit to ride the Weiser River Trail in…

It was late in the ride, the section that follows the last sprint when the ride slows down enough that you can once again have a conversation. My friend Mo turned to me and…