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I wrote this for Red Kite Prayer in 2013, but the song remains the same in 2023. I was a middle-class kid, as tormented by boredom as by the peer pressure of my preppy…

Given my background writing about custom builders and judging bikes at the North American Handmade Bicycle show, I'm often asked not who to pick, but how to pick. (In fact,…

Manic butterflies in my stomach gurgle and churn my morning coffee and steel oats into, well, I don’t want to even imagine what as I remind myself what I have told my…

Because of the nature of my work, I have a lot more flexibility than most of my friends. I can ride in the middle of the day, and certainly during the winter, that's a more…

I'm not generally going to be posting DNF efforts here, but Padraig references the Grasshopper gravel series pretty often on the Paceline, and I found this survey of (most…

It was one of those classic, New England, omnidirectional headwinds. We'd screamed down the hill to the main drag, my eyes streaming despite my glasses, and my face contorted…

I couldn't begin to explain to someone who hasn't been there, what is good about that place. It's a benighted place, but a simpler one as well. When you're there, maybe you…

Well, at least it stopped raining. That’s the first thought I had looking down at my derailleur after the pedals stopped spinning with a jolt in the middle of the woods in…

This one's for the roadies. I have friends who are dyed-in-the-wool road cyclists. The last few years have seen the numbers in their group rides dropping, and the media…

Dangerous Dave is a better bike rider than I am. He's very likely better than you, too. I watch his videos occasionally, as much because I enjoy his commentary (and laughter)…