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A month or so back I wrote a post about it being a particularly optimal time to buy a new bike, due to a massive glut of post-pandemic inventory. That post shockingly and…

It all began with a crash. Of course I rode bikes as a kid. As I wrote earlier, I taught myself how to ride by lugging my brother’s rusting, heavy, solid-tire 24-incher…

I should have read the signs the night before, when Fez suggested riding later in the morning and closer to home. If I'd followed that thread and joined that ride, I would…

Annemiek van Vleuten is retiring at the end of this season, and you could forgive her if she just used the 2023 races as a victory lap on one of the great all-time pro…

By now you're aware that the Earth's atmosphere is heating at an alarming rate due to an excess of carbon dioxide, the byproduct of more or less every energy burning…

Historically, I’ve been critical of the bike industry for virtually everything, for the too fast pace of innovation, for the narrow approach to that innovation. Kinda for…

From the moment my feet left Mother Earth to hop onto a bike for the first ride, that sensation of launching into adventure became etched into my essence forever. The…

My gateway into adult cycling was a Trek Antelope 800 I bought my sophomore year in college. This was nominally an entry level mountain bike, but I used it exclusively as an…

I spent five years riding on 20-inchers and 16-inchers. Yes, as an adult. I’m not talking BMX, either. OK, so I spent a whole summer riding a unicycle as a teenager,…

The sign read "BRIDGE OUT," and two tall, orange traffic cones blocked the way. Google Maps flickered and rerouted to a dirt road off to the right. This dirt road had a name,…