Op-Ed

Welcome one and all. If you arrive here as a former reader of Red Kite Prayer, you will know the routine from the Friday Group Ride that featured there for the last decade.…

When the call came into the shop from Boulder, we all crowded around the phone trying to hear every scrap uttered. Alan, a friend from my collegiate cycling team, had just…

Sometimes the simple act of riding a bike for fun will hold back an ocean of hurt, of conflict, of responsibility, of baggage, of politics both interpersonal and…

Becoming a cyclist forced me to confront how I use my energy and how I recharge myself. I had to reckon that I really had a finite amount of energy to give to my passions, no…

Right now you might be thinking, "How can this be an editor’s letter on a website? This isn't print!" You very well should be thinking that because we’re not just another…

The way I tell the story, my love of magazines, of periodic publications, began with Skateboarder Magazine in 1977, but that’s not actually true. I can trace it…

I first met Eric at a spring training race in central Pennsylvania. At that time I had no idea he’d impact the way I considered the world, but he did. Even though he didn’t…

What do you think about when you ride? Me? Some days riding is like a form of meditation; I can feel each pedal stroke and hear my breath as it cycles through my lungs.…

You know the challenge. You’re in a group and somewhere deep inside of you the river of time flows just as your blood surges through your veins. You are on one of two sides…

The first time I dreamt up a publication, I thought about what I wanted to say and how I wanted to present it. My focus was on my creative expression, and what that might…