Patrick Brady Portfolio

The following links will demonstrate my range as a writer, editor and publisher. They encompass travel pieces, essays, podcast episodes and more.

Media branding:

I conceived of The Cycling Independent, recruited partners and contributors, commissioned the art for the logo and managed the design and launch of the site.

Red Kite Prayer was my first foray into launching a web-only publication. I commissioned the logo and managed the design and launch of the site. RKP won numerous awards, including Outside Magazine naming RKP the best blog in cycling.
 

Writing:

The following is a feature I wrote for Bicycling about a trip I made to Japan while wrestling with depression and a failing marriage:
88 Temples—Under the Darkness of Depression a Cycling Pursues Zen by Bike. Is cycling religion? A vision quest to Japan’s Shikoku Island reveals some answers.

My freelance copywriting work has included catalogs for Zipp Speed Weaponry, among others. With this catalog for Zipp, I wrote every word. It encapsulates the full range of my copywriting abilities.
Zipp Catalog (link to PDF)

I drank (okay, got drunk) with some locals in Moldova while on a bike tour and the resulting feature won the silver award from the Society of American Travel Writers:
My Day With Ilya

There’s a reason we feel so good after we go for a bike ride, Our brain pumps out a soup of neurochemicals that send us into our own personal Nirvana. It’s called a flow state.
The Science of Whee!—Bicycling Magazine

If you are a cyclist, I see you. A friend wrote to me after reading the following piece and said she cried “big, ugly tears” because finally, someone got what it means to be a cyclist.
What We Would Say

I know what it is to have the need to race course through my blood:
Pride

This piece cemented my reputation as a philosopher of cycling:
The Well

Turning a rambling conversation into a coherent interview is one of the better tests of an editor’s abilities. Mountain bike pioneer Gary Fisher is a genius, as well as a lover of tangents. I preserved his conversational style and pattern of speech, while reducing the six hours of conversation into something you can read in 10 minutes.
10 Ways Gary Fisher Was Right (And One Way He Was Wrong)

Podcasts:

I moved into podcasting reluctantly, but have produced one of the most popular podcasts in cycling, The Paceline:
#175: Iron Cross, Outride Foundation

I’ve turned some of my magazine features into recorded works for a podcast called The Long Way Home. This one is about a solo cycling tour I did through the Rocky Mountains:
The Long Way Home: Searching for America

I have a deep history of covering frame builders and I did a series of interviews with frame builders and other smart bike people:
The Pull, Ep. 14: Mountain Bike Pioneer Gary Fisher