Red Kite Prayer

I wrote this for Red Kite Prayer in 2013, but the song remains the same in 2023. I was a middle-class kid, as tormented by boredom as by the peer pressure…

This piece appeared on Red Kite Prayer in 2010. I was reminded of it by a moth clung to the side of the house the other day, and when I found the piece and…

TCI Friday works when you participate, like marriage counselling or the tango, or democracy. By this time, I have written this Friday discussion column…

I am pro cycling, which is both to say that I am, broadly speaking, in favor of cycling, and also highly supportive of getting paid to do so. Another…

For the first time in a long time, I kept up with the Tour, day-by-day, and I have to say, I really enjoyed it. Taking a long vacation from pro cycling served…

A lot of you reading these words came to The Cycling Independent after a decade and a bit more of reading Red Kite Prayer. For everyone else, the occasional…

We all get older, what with time remaining steadfastly unidirectional, and wear and tear eventually becoming worn and torn. The photo above is of me, on this…

If you read my idealistic screed A Panacea the other day, then you might have taken issue with my idea to give people tax credits for bicycle and…

Man, are we having fun! That's the good news. Padraig and I are bursting with ideas for TCI, more ideas than we have the time or resources to chase. This is a…

I have felt my heart break half way up a gray, dirt, hillside in the freezing rain. I have bonked, the energy leaving my legs/face/soul on sun-baked pavement…