Op-Ed

By the time you're reading this, I'm packing my bag to fly to Atlanta to run an ultramarathon. Running? Who cares? Yes, but also beside the point, because this TCIF isn't…

Think back on the first time you got on a bike and rode off to points unknown. The first time I did that, I was on my Raleigh Chopper (my mom was too counter-culture to buy…

Often I recall things I've said or written and think, "Hmmm...maybe I could have expressed that in a better way." On this week's Paceline I said that everyone, no exceptions,…

On this week's Paceline we discussed the announcement from Shimano that the new Dura Ace and Ultegra groups would be 12spd and, more surprisingly, electronic only. The future…

You think too goddamned much. Don't ask me how I know. Oh, it's because I also think too much. It's a failing of the human condition, to think more than to act, to spend…

As I have gotten older, I have learned two really critical things about myself (and probably should have learned more). The first is that getting older is a waste of time. I…

Some days I just can't even, especially towards the end of any season (see last week's TCIF for an elaboration). I sit at the bottom of the basement stairs, the bike rack off…

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure." -- Marianne Williamson, A Return To Love I have always…

I'm summered out. I've pushed and I've pedaled and I've sweated straight through this season. Gross. It's gotten so I'm sweating before I get out the door, the perspiration…

Dear Stevil, I want to get a new tattoo but my wife thinks I have enough already. How would you sell her on the idea? Or, would you just do it and ask for forgiveness…