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Hello Friends, As we have mentioned in recent communications, we will be taking on a site sponsor shortly. Shimano North America has agreed to underwrite a large…

You open your eyes. Disoriented. Dirty. Details are sharp but nonsensical. Rising dust motes. The tick of a spinning freewheel. A dog with five white whiskers licking your…

It only happened once or twice. I made a sort of kamikaze effort to get off the front of the group, the result of some combination of my own recklessness and everyone else's…

Sit yourself down. Class is in session. The Dutch invented BMX, bicycle moto-cross, not the Californians, even if On Any Sunday did herald its arrival as a cultural…

'Groping,' as a word, has seen better days. It came into English from the Old English grapian, "to feel about (as in darkness or drunkenness)." Shortly after, Shakespeare…

You know we try to keep it real here at TCI, and there are few of us who haven't been touched by mental health struggles and suicide. So many of the people I've admired in my…

I asked my wife if she wanted to go mountain biking, not in a generalized way, but at a specific time and date. She's the sort of person who likes to know what to expect. She…

Brittney asked where Steve was. He was a regular at our group fitness sessions, but then he disappeared. “He got a hip replacement,” I said. She made a pained face and…

This week's video comes to us from Brazil and Shimano. Brazil is a big, beautiful place that produces many outstanding athletes across all the cycling disciplines. This video…

We all get older, what with time remaining steadfastly unidirectional, and wear and tear eventually becoming worn and torn. The photo above is of me, on this morning's gravel…