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I'll be honest. I'm a fan of Tyler Hamilton's. I know there are a lot out there who lump him in with all the other riders who cheated. If that's where you're at, that's ok.…

Leg speed is, simply, the speed your legs will move without you trying to move them faster. You have a certain leg speed on a bike, and another one when running, or,…

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…