Op-Ed

I love bikes, and I love new bikes, and I love new bike technology. I love that companies continue to push on various aspects of design to improve and innovate. I just don't…

Thanksgiving. Doing anything meaningful in a group requires negotiation. Who's gonna make the stuffing? When should we eat? Who's going to wash the dishes? If you're a…

When I wrote my first Thanksgiving post more than 15 years ago, I felt driven to express my gratitude for a friend who was moving away. We'd pedaled thousands of miles…

Oh, here in the Northern Hemisphere we're getting into a real glove-y time of year, and longtime readers will know this is an accessory with which I am particularly…

El Tour de Tucson, Tucson's best-known cycling event, released a photo of their special guest riders at the 2023 event. The riders are (l-r) George Hincapie, Christian Vande…

Wednesday is normally a ride day. We have a standing group ride, gravel or mountain bikes, that leaves around 7:30am. Last Wednesday, however, I had a contractor coming at 9…

Allow me to describe for you, a coin with two sides, as if there is any other kind. On side one, you have a riding companion who is not having the best day, either by…

I want to design a pair of bike shorts with the nice people at Dickies. They already have a line of skateboarding apparel. Why not some bike stuff too? I took a pair of…

The bike-related injury (BRI) that kept me off the bike the longest was a cracked collarbone (which led to frozen shoulder) that took me out of circulation for four or five…

It didn't make sense at first glance, one bike, one rider, four legs. Then I got closer. There was a kid on the back, which explained why the rider, also a kid, was standing…