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For the first time in a long time, I kept up with the Tour, day-by-day, and I have to say, I really enjoyed it. Taking a long vacation from pro cycling served as a palate…

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…