Op-Ed

The Tour kicks off tomorrow in Florence, which is in Italy last I checked, and doesn't get to France until Stage 4. That's nothing shocking since the Tour usually starts…

It’s an endless debate these days over what happened to cycling camaraderie, when passing bike riders acknowledged each other either with gestures like a wave or nod of the…

Once upon a time, human people stood as still as they possibly could while a thing called a "camera" exposed "photographic" film to light, so as to make an image. If you…

The experience of leafing through a magazine printed on high-quality stock and soaking in full-page, color photos paired with a richly told story is one of the sublime…

Out on a mountain bike trail in the middle of the woods, the peaceful calming elements of nature draw me into another world, where my senses appear to be on overdrive soaking…

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…