Talk

We’re Not Starting a Cult, But If We Were Starting a Cult. Humans will believe just about anything, which makes them ripe for recruitment by people who would manipulate them…

The bike industry's annual family reunion, better known as the Sea Otter Classic happens this week at Laguna Seca Raceway near Monterey, Calif. We're posting a day early…

TV Had Rotted Our Minds Long Before the Internet Came Along. You must see that the Internet is just the Choose Your Own Adventure version of television, and long before the…

This week Lori and Patrick welcome guest Paul Tolmé, the media relations director for Cascade Bicycle Club. With roughly 10,000 paying members, Cascade is one of the largest,…

A Participation Trophy for Your Trouble. It’s award season, because it’s never not award season when people who already make a lot of money and are crazy famous also want to…

This week, Lori and Patrick talk with Joel Sehloff, the West Coast head of OE sales for Factor Bicycles. He tells the story of his path through the bike industry, beginning…

Never Put the Shovel Away. Robot made a huge mistake last week. He put one of his snow shovels away in the shed. That caused it to snow this week. OK. OK. Maybe it didn’t…

This week Lori and Patrick talk to pro gravel rider Whitney Allison of Bike Sports in Fort Collins, Colo. Following an impressive career as a pro on the road, Whitney and her…

Nature, Nurture, Geography, Chemistry, Luck. We are all bags of DNA and chemicals, raised in petri dishes, by decaying life forms in urban and suburban and ex-urban locales,…

Lori and Patrick take a look at the pros and cons of group rides and the reasons why or why not a rider might consider doing them, if they aren't already. Hint: They are…