Useless Reviews

We express ourselves through our clothing, that we are a cat lady, or a tough guy, or a style maven, or a firefighter. Whole genres of t-shirt are dedicated…

There are better things to degrease your chain with than Skin Bracer by Mennen, although it is a sort of solvent. Few other solutions will leave your chain…

If you are sitting at the bar end, you are probably in the way. That tends to be where the bartender puts the drinks going to the folks not sitting at the bar.…

Marcomm is a term used by marketing people to indicate all marketing communications materials. That used to consist of catalogs, brochures, and other printed,…

At some point in our cycling history, someone decided that WD-40 was bad, and for a period of a few years I stopped using it on my bicycles. In retrospect,…

I know people who raced against John Tomac, "back in the day," by which I mean people who wore race numbers while watching Tomac win a race to which they were…

Ok. Ok. My clothes dryer isn't, strictly speaking, a cycling component, BUT I think you can read the following and just substitute <mechanical derailleur of…

In 1990 Shimano brought their Shimano Pedaling Dynamics (SPD) to the world. From the full name, you would expect it to be more than a clipless pedal and a…

I hope you don't own a cone wrench, or god-forbid, a whole set of cone wrenches. That's the cyclist equivalent of having a VCR or a landline, almost charmingly…

There is an element of the product review which is a baseline question of epistemology, i.e. how can we know things? If I can't see, feel, and/or sniff a…