Op-Ed

The Tour de France is as much a parade of chaos as it is a bike race, a testament to the P.T. Barnum maxim, "Nothing draws a crowd like a crowd." And this year's version was…

Rolling on down the highway, again — the same old highway I rolled down yesterday, and the day before, and will probably roll down again tomorrow — it strikes me that this…

Like an expert tracker I can sense if new logging has begun by looking at the road conditions. The more packed down the gravel the more likely serious work has started deep…

Let's hear it for our man Raz's first TCI Friday! Read hard. Comment harder. Happy Friday. - Robot To most people I call it my annual kick off the summer ride. To my…

I feel certain I've asked this one before, but it's been a while and my memory isn't what it used to be. I went for an MTB ride with some friends the other day. There were…

We'd been climbing this hillside in gradual, swooping switchbacks when Koop's chain popped. There at the ridgeline was a boulder with a wooden ladder granting entry to its…

Gravel! Gravel! Gravel! Today's standard road bikes have 28mm tires and disc brakes. That would have been a gravel bike ten years ago. There is a new sub-category called…

Last week I wrote this thing, and I wasn't completely honest in it. Reader Alan said in comments, something that struck me as entirely true, which is to say I do NOT always…

A thing I wrote years ago for Red Kite Prayer. On this Monday, when the words are all stuck in between my ears, refusing to find my fingertips, a good reminder that sometimes…

I promise you I'm not a glove fetishist, although if you went through the gear bins in my basement you might reasonably come to that conclusion. For a time, I was deeply…