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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!-->…
Video – Enter Gravel Heaven
It's New York City's Rubber n' Road guys, back again, to show us the kind of riding we can do with a little planning and a little adventure in our hearts. I confess I'm!-->…