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Video – Biface
There are a few things I love about this one. First, there's no music. It's just the sound of the wind blowing and the buzz of freewheels. Second, the riding has a balletic!-->…
Giving Your Kids the Gift of Bikes
I've told the story a dozen times by now. When I was eight years old a BMX bike appeared in front of our artificial Christmas tree and changed my life. With the holidays in!-->…
Hey, Just Ride 103: Yellowstone Hayden Valley
Our National Parks and bicycles seem to have a rather bizarre love-hate relationship, and you need to look no further than the park system’s own marketing twist on the!-->…
Ebullition/Doubt: In Between Daze
I was over at my pal Rob’s house on a rainy Saturday afternoon, up to the usual antics of a couple of bored ninth graders, smoking shitty weed, messing with junk in his!-->…
Video – A Brief History of Bicycle Engineering
You know these things, but maybe you haven't thought about them in exactly this way. In the middle '90s I was involved in a startup that built a stationary bike that modeled!-->…
TCO
My wife speaks in acronyms. She works in software, and the people there, they are syllable avoidant. Very seldom is she explaining something to me about her day, that I don’t!-->…
Hey, Just Ride 102: Thanksgiving
Icy gusts blasted my wind-burnt cheeks, stinging to make them feel like a pin cushion, as Mother Nature delivered an unmistakably clear message that cold winter weather had!-->…
Ortlieb Repair Week
We don't often come across news that seeks to push back against consumerism. Bike brands are generally in the biz of getting people to buy new gear, but the German!-->…
Video – Arto Saari: Bike Path
If you were real busy paying attention to bikes for the last 20-30 years, then you might have missed Arto Saari's skateboarding career. He was one of the very best,!-->…
The Master Works
I was in 12th grade English class, breaking down a poem, preparing for the AP English Exam, learning the techniques of the masters and teasing out the ways in which they!-->…