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EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the fourth in a series of my bike ride from San Francisco to Carlsbad. A full moon neared dipping behind the Western horizon, lighting up the…

Background: We had little resources for bike gear…after all it was college days.   Lance, my buddy and main training partner bought a pair of expensive shorts. He saved…

ESPN released their two-part, three-and-a-half-hour Lance Armstrong documentary, Lance, in 2020, but I just got around to watching it on Netflix. Maybe it just arrived there.…

I'm fond of saying that the bike is as near to a panacea as humanity has yet discovered, good as a treatment for both individual maladies and societal problems. Here's a…

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the third in a series of my bike ride from San Francisco to Carlsbad. The true essence of cycling, like life, lies in discovery. The first bike…

Last week I wrote about language and terms. Specifically, some terms that I personally use to describe a bike ride and the environment. To review: Butter Smooth. Used…

Last week I mentioned my Welsh grandfather, the dairy farmer. He was a gardener in his later years. That was his real passion, rows of peas and beans, a bed of potatoes, some…

Issue #2 of Hokem Magazine is out. It's a thing I've been working on with my friend Bob. I mentioned it here before, but with Issue #2 out in the world, I thought I'd…

A classic of the genre, a sort of Citizen Kane of taking things less seriously. This one's from IFHT Films, who have made a trove of similarly themed examinations of the…

Cyclists can be an awfully self-serious bunch. I say this as someone who has called himself a "serious" cyclist ... without irony. It's the sort of statement to which I think…