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You aren’t wearing that banana shirt again, are you? No, I guess I am not. I mean if I was like most of my peers going to the study club dinner, I would be in a polo shirt…

This week John takes on how there can be a delta between what we feel a bike is doing and what it is actually doing. Patrick looks at ebike batteries and just how trustworthy…

Clipless pedals. I know, the name is confusing to some, but only if you do not know the history. Yes, there is a company ‘setting out’ to change the name from clipless to…

The Foster family in Ruskington, Lincolnshire in the U.K. were a family of 10 who could get everyone out for a bike ride with just three bikes .. and a trailer ... and a…

In 2025, I started meditating. It's a thing I'd attempted many times before but was never able to stick with. I could never shake the feeling that I was doing it wrong, that…

Our intrepid correspondent George Mount has seen it all. We suspect that he has re-brazed a fork during a ride. He has shared with us his recollection of all that he used to…

Do you have a pre-ride routine? You should. I am not talking about the – drink XX ounces of Beet Juice with XXX extract for performance. Not that you cannot add…

I have hesitated to write anything about the economic state of the bike business lately, for two reasons. First, most of our readers aren't that interested. They wanna ride…

In the superlative-heavy world of bicycle marketing there are two words a copywriter tries to avoid, and those words are 'heavy' and 'compliant.' Take those crayons out of…

Conformity. How important is it to fit in? John wonders what we gain through conformity and whether the effort results in sufficient reward. Patrick takes a look at a looming…