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This week Lori and Patrick welcome Katy Bryce, the CEO of the Robert Axle Project (a maker of thru-axles) and Old Man Mountain (a maker of touring and bikepacking racks and…

This week I interview 2018 NAHBS Best in Show winner Gabriel Lang of Altruiste Bikes from New Brunswick, Canada. Lang won with a long-travel 29er that was truly unique among…

Sometimes You Just Have to Blow It Up. Nine days out of ten, we’re sleep walking, so it should come as no surprise when things get tragically off-course. Maybe it’s a…

I've been interviewing framebuilders since 1992, the first time I called Richard Sachs up on the phone for a piece for Richard Fries's wonderful regional rag, The Ride. My…

You and Your Younger Self Walk Into a Bar. How much of the story that we tell ourselves is really true?  Were we really that cool, that rad or that fast?  Or have we spent…

This week Lori and Patrick welcome Tom Boss, the Executive Director for the Redwood Trails Alliance, a mountain bike advocacy organization based in Sonoma County, California.…

Meet Me at the Goat Parade. All over the world people sensed a disturbance in the force, two powerful forces colliding, as though gravity shuddered and let out a fart. What…

The Monster Truck Jam of the Planet of the Apes. The human condition is a cage we’ve spent nearly 300,000 years trying to escape from. Can we kill a wooly mammoth? Actually,…

Friends, we're sorry to let you down. We know you like to kick off your week with an hour of circular conversation that shouts out people you don't know and music you don't…

What's it like to be a travel writer—not just a travel writer, but one who focuses on cycling? Lori and Patrick are joined by Alex Crevar, a New York Times contributor who…