TCI Friday

Each summer we christen our annual road trip with a stay at the Newberry National Volcanic Monument outside of Bend, Oregon. For the past four years, I’ve…

I’ve been christening a number of new rides the past few months. Although we’ve lived in Oregon for nearly 19 years, and this particular neck of the woods…

Chasing media jobs throughout my career has taken me around the US to live in seven states as an adult, and I’ve ridden my bike in each of them: Wisconsin,…

The Tour kicks off tomorrow in Florence, which is in Italy last I checked, and doesn't get to France until Stage 4. That's nothing shocking since the Tour…

Out on a mountain bike trail in the middle of the woods, the peaceful calming elements of nature draw me into another world, where my senses appear to be on…

The song "With a Little Help from My Friends" is a horrible earworm, and I kinda never want to hear it again, even though it expresses one of the great truisms…

Nearly every bike you see in a bike shop or on a website has been spec'd by a product manager, a person who takes the frame the company produces and decides…

We ride bikes for fun. Right? Wait. Is that right? No. We ride our bikes for transportation. Yeah. OK. Can transportation also be fun though? I suppose, if…

The vast majority of cycling injuries are RUIs, repetitive use injuries, things like IT Band Friction Syndrome, Handlebar Hand, and QL (quadratus lumborum)…

You're kind of a weirdo, and that makes the whole thing kinda a crapshoot. You board your plane. You eat your airline snack. You watch a movie you'd meaning to…