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Is this a cycling video, a rider profile, or a tourism video for a small country in Europe most of us have never been to? Yeah. Probably. But it's short and kinda sweet,w and…

A lot of you reading these words came to The Cycling Independent after a decade and a bit more of reading Red Kite Prayer. For everyone else, the occasional references to RKP…

 I’m just back from vacation with my boys. We did a fair amount of riding, which is to say, three days out of five. I've been asked how to get your kids riding. I’m feeling…

I've read a dozen or more books about the Tour de France, but I always learn something new. This is a cool, animated short that provides insight into early versions of the…

This is my office. This couch. That dog. It is a comfortable place to sit for an hour or two at a time, but if I sit there all day my body tells me the ergonomics aren’t…

I love this one for a lot of reasons. First, it's an adventure, and it's a well-crafted one, because it happens close the riders' homes. It's also well-contained temporally.…

What people remember about Einstein's two paradigm shifting works of genius, his Theories of Special and General Relativity can mostly be reduced to E=mc2, but that simple…

This, my epitaph, the stone mason chortling softly to himself as he works at the granite plinth. It seems fitting really, a testament to the hours I spent in the saddle, and…

On many rides, I unconsciously slip into forgetting I do this because it makes me happy. The ride gets hard in some way, or maybe I start to ride really well, and one of…

A broken scale may or may not tell you something you want to know. It may say you're doing ok. It may tell you you're good enough. Or it might say you don't measure up.…