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This, my epitaph, the stone mason chortling softly to himself as he works at the granite plinth. It seems fitting really, a testament to the hours I spent in…

When I tell you that I have two kids who impinge upon my time to ride and to work on bikes, I'm not asking for pity, making excuses or announcing that I'm…

On many rides, I unconsciously slip into forgetting I do this because it makes me happy. The ride gets hard in some way, or maybe I start to ride really well,…

The metaphors abound. In one, I am the minnow, squiggling and wriggling along, minding my own business with both eyes peeled for danger. The bus is a great…

A broken scale may or may not tell you something you want to know. It may say you're doing ok. It may tell you you're good enough. Or it might say you don't…

Shimano North America is our site sponsor. This makes writing about their products nettlesome, because readers might reasonably think I have been compensated…

Courier Pigeons. This episode is about bike couriers, messengering, and the strangely outsized influence of a niche job on cycling culture. Stevil was one, so…

There's something very interesting happening in Kenya and in East Africa more widely, and Team AMANI seems to be at the center of it. A series of gravel races…

TCI Friday works best when you participate. Read. Ponder. Give your two cents. Or three. One of the goals of meditation is to gain some distance from your…

These are words from a long time ago, but with summer heating up and the Tour on, I thought I'd resurface them. I hope you enjoy. Joop Zoetemelk finished on…