Op-Ed

The song "With a Little Help from My Friends" is a horrible earworm, and I kinda never want to hear it again, even though it expresses one of the great truisms of being a…

 Technology. I love it! I hate it!   I have been called a retro grouch as well as a spokehead. I have been told I have all the new stuff and that I am resistant to any new…

Nearly every bike you see in a bike shop or on a website has been spec'd by a product manager, a person who takes the frame the company produces and decides what parts should…

A cool company that came to my attention this winter, called Ocean and San. For cyclists on the West Side of LA, that phrase is an abbreviation for the intersection of…

We ride bikes for fun. Right? Wait. Is that right? No. We ride our bikes for transportation. Yeah. OK. Can transportation also be fun though? I suppose, if done right. It's…

The vast majority of cycling injuries are RUIs, repetitive use injuries, things like IT Band Friction Syndrome, Handlebar Hand, and QL (quadratus lumborum) strain. Most of…

Roughly eighteen months ago I published my first Usless ReviewTM of How-To Videos. In re-reading I cringe a little, as I nearly always do when I revisit my work, but also…

You're kind of a weirdo, and that makes the whole thing kinda a crapshoot. You board your plane. You eat your airline snack. You watch a movie you'd meaning to see. You land,…

Heartbreak comes in many forms, and when my local bike shop shuttered my thumper cracked.  Living in Oregon, local takes on new meaning. My town doesn’t have a…

The full title of this engaging read from Andy McGrath, longtime editor of Rouleur magazine and stalwart freelance cycling journalist for an array of other British…