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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!-->…
Ebullition/Doubt: Dirtbag Digressions 2.0; The Impermanence of Clean
Entropy (noun): lack of order or predictability; gradual decline into disorder.
Disclaimer: I am not really* a “car-guy” despite having grown up with!-->!-->!-->…
Basic Forensics
She noticed the blood. She was changing the sheets, and she said to me, "Where are you bleeding from?" And I said, "What?" because I was unaware that I had been bleeding at!-->…
Freestyle: The Arrival of the Winter Bird
I started noticing birds. I’m not a bird watcher, binoculars slung around my neck, standing quietly in a marsh, staring at a tree. No. But I’m an avid bird noticer.
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Video – L’Eroica 2024
This is cosplay for cyclists. It's LARPing. And some part of me definitely wants to make a sarcastic joke, but actually, these people seem to be having a very fine time. I'll!-->…
The Commodity Conundrum
The jumping off point for this piece is a conversation I had with a friend of mine who owns a bike shop, what one might even call a successful bike shop, free of debt, with!-->…
Ebullition/Doubt 9: Plague Vending, When Too Much Might be Too Much
This episode we go big, but with mixed results. That might be a rhetorical statement, but that has never stopped me. Speaking of stopping, I have never been antediluvian. I!-->…
Three Breaking Points
I don't know what happened, or I do, in literal terms, but how or why it happened remains a mystery to me. What happened is that I turned into the trail from the dirt road!-->…