Talk

This week John takes a look at leadership, particularly as it plays out in pro teams at grand tours. Patrick takes on a question about deep rims and whether they make sense…

The Fine Print in the Social Contract. Just cause we’re introverted malcontents doesn’t mean we’re not on our second-best behavior when we’re out in public. Out there in the…

This week John talks about categories. What sorts of categories? Categories of mountain bikes. Patrick talks about pumping a mountain bike and how his own skillset evolved…

Excuse Me, Can I X-ray your Xylophone. We’ve both been back to places we might have come from to revisit our roots, and all the while you think you’re finding a deeper part…

"Sorry, not sorry," is a thing very clever people say. It's the sort of thing that makes you kinda wanna slap them, because it's so cute, even though the idea, that you're…

Our guest this week is Yvonne Kraus of Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance. As I've mentioned in some previous episodes, I've been spending a fair amount of time in the…

Caring Carers Who Care. We can all agree that it’s much better to not care than to care, but sometimes you have to, and more specifically, sometimes you have to take care of…

We have a rerun this week; Robot is in Wales. We have a new tandem episode coming soon. This week we have our first tandem episode in, well, forever. Last summer Skratch Labs…

As Punk as Kettlebells and Scented Candles. When you’re just a pimply-faced teen trying to establish yourself as an iconoclast and quite possibly a voice of your generation,…

The Struggle is Surreal. We want everything to be easy, but if everything comes easy, it doesn’t have a lot of value. So we need some struggle but still hate struggling. Is…