Op-Ed

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…

When you spend as much time tooling around town on your bike like most of us do, well, you get bike brained. I never really thought about a concept that much until I found…

Overcast mornings with a pinch of dew on the ground, just enough to soak through sliver thin running shorts, withstand the test of time. Small talk typically recounting…

As a kid was there anything as fun and fulfilling as riding around with no hands on the handlebars? In the earliest days of riding it provided the best way to freak out…

Here is my premise: We all belong to a union of bike riding people. And no matter what kind of bike we ride, we benefit from the work of an advocacy group trying to make our…

Humans love stuff. No other animal pays rent on storage spaces to keep stuff that doesn't fit in their first stuff storage building. Obviously, as with most things, our…

I learned to skate ski back in the 1990s, when I was on the front side of my first 40 years. At the time, I was still relatively new to cycling, too green to consider myself…

We're just never satisfied. From the time Tullio Campagnolo (above) invented the derailleur, we were like, "Two is great, Tulio, but can I have more?" And we've spent lots of…

I’ve spent countless hours commuting on my bike through Oregon winters and have learned more than a thing or two about cycling in the rain. Things like don’t ride with…