Useless Reviews

I'm not sure when we started including the vertical gain in our description of rides. Certainly, it wasn't a readily accessible statistic in the before-times,…

RUI stands for repetitive use injury. It's the injury that happens while you're just doing what you always do. No need to go over the bars. No need to tag a…

You know, out of the gate, I'm not going to be giving saddles sores a positive review, at least not for their primary function, which is to ruin your life.…

Once upon a time in my early teen years, I needed money. I forget what for, but it must have been critically important, because my father suggested I collect…

Let's cut to the chase. The burrito is probably one of nature's few perfect foods. Protein, grain, vegetable, dairy, all delicious, and all in its own edible…

The world is full of amazing tubes. When I was a kid people talked about test tube babies a lot. You would need great tubes for that. You'd also apparently…

Some objects in space are so gravitationally massive that light bends as it passes by them. The Tour de France is like that too, in that it has changed the…

I stepped off the paved part of the road onto the gravelly verge and pulled the dog next to me as a car came barreling past. The roadway was lined with young…

My son, who is now 18-years-old, 6'2" and headed to college in August, was once what I called "my shoulder monkey," a much smaller version of me, who spent…

Gains! Who doesn't want 'em? No one. That's who. No one doesn't want to gain something. On the bike, that might mean endurance or power or skills or I don't…