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It’s a tall goddamned order, being cheerful, but what are you going to do? Sulk around all the time? Make everyone else miserable? Make yourself miserable? Left to my own…

This is a thing I wrote a couple years ago that never saw the light of day. I hope you enjoy it. Let the record show that at precisely 12:07pm today, my oldest son said to…

Kelly Catale is an elite mountain bike and gravel racer and a mental health advocate. This piece originally appeared on her own site. It gives a close insight into the…

This video combines a lot of my favorite things: deep, green woods; mountain biking; a lunatic; and jaw-dropping finesse in wildly improbable conditions. There are a million…

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…