Useless Reviews

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…

In the hands of a certain person, a spoke wrench is a valuable tool. That certain person is the sort who is methodical, meticulous, who gains a relationship…

Anyone who has ridden too far or too fast, or both, and then come home, shelled, bedraggled and way off the caloric deep end, knows the sublime joy of…

You are the wrong shape. Please don't take this personally. We all are. Your shoulders are too square, and your pelvis is oriented in entirely the wrong…