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I'm no Formula 1 fan, but I watched the Netflix doc Formula 1 - Drive to Survive and found it interesting. Motorsports are apex climate change denialism, to me, a global…

Paris-Roubaix is less a bike race than a sort of Mad Max Roller Derby. Oh, there are bikes, and there is strategy, but what you get more often than not is spectacle,…

The jumbo shrimp doesn't know what it is, despite having quite complex sensory and processing organs. Brine shrimp think they're Sea MonkeysTM, so it stands to reason that…

Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was an experimental neurologist (among other smart guy stuff) who discovered what's called classical conditioning, basically the association through…

The closest experience I could compare it to was trying to climb Beech Mountain in North Carolina, hitting its base with all the excitement and anticipation of my cycling…

Well, here we are on the eve of the Tour of Flanders, the legendary race of Flandrian cobbled climbs (as opposed to Paris-Roubaix which races over flat cobbles). Flanders is…

"Here! Try this! It's good for you!" Consider this series of statements. If it comes from a stranger, I'd wager only about one-in-ten of us reaches out a hand to take "this."…

We have been living in our Sandwich Days, my wife and I, with the two-sided strain of raising our kids and also caring for our aging parents. We've lost a few of those…

As my bike weaved freely to and fro across the roadway, I glanced across the vast lava field atop the Old McKenzie Highway and chuckled with a snort of snot rocketing out of…

I wrote this one about ten years ago, but I've had this ride (and this piece) on my mind lately, because it represents one of the high points of my riding life, the perfect…