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I've written before that you have to be prepared for change if you ride the forests of Oregon. You can head out one day and find an entire mountain on your route clear cut. …

This spring, I’ve been riding in Shimano’s revamped S-Phyre mountain bike shoes. I’ve worn the previous edition of the S-Phyre shoes in both the road and mountain versions…

Riding outside. The sights, sounds and smells. Mostly pleasant, but not always. Always different. I know we all love beautiful views and the flowers blooming – sight…

At the risk of saying something obvious, given my previous work, I want to put myself on record as being an admitted, unrepentant flow junkie. One of the weirder revelations…

Conformity. The pressure to fit in. And once we fit in, the pressure to stay there, evolving with the in-group’s ideas. If I rewind to the very beginning, the first days I…

From 1991 to 2004, immediately before the Criterium du Dauphiné, there was a one-day race, a kind of modern classic (think on that for a moment) held in Southeast France,…

Where even is the bottom? I have looked. I have rooted around deep in the bucket of myself and never quite gotten there. Oh sure, I've emptied the bucket, bonked,…

Here we are, five years down the road from the lockdown, and the bike world is still in a state of flux. John wonders how shops might evolve their business model to survive.…

If you are currently reading, and enjoy this site, my guess is that you enjoy the bike. Duhhh, you say? Well, I know not everyone reading this rides a bike, but I also…