Writers like H.G. Wells and Jules Verne lived through the first blasts of the industrial revolution and imagined the future based on what they perceived as a quickening of technological ...
Monthly Archives: October 2015
Why Trek’s Consumer-Direct Initiative Changes Everything
The Most Important Industry Move No One Wants To Talk About It’s been just over sixty days since Trek’s bombshell announcement at the company’s August dealer event. Prefaced by the phrase “we ...
Velo Jerseys Long Sleeve Jersey
Two-plus decades ago, during an era when Sean Kelly was still an active pro and what was arguably the world’s greatest team hailed from the Netherlands, VeloNews ran a shot of King Kelly ...
LOOK KEO 2 MAX BLADE
Recommending contact point components on a bicycle is tricky business. Bars, Saddle, Pedals: that’s personal stuff. It’s probably why we have so much to chose from. I could glow about ...
The Dissonance of Serenity and Mayhem
I’ve been cataloging things I’ve noticed about Taiwanese culture. They aren’t really the stuff of a story, but are those random observations that remind you that you are in the ...
Spirituality
I turned off the road behind the grocery store and into the woods. The light was dying, ebbing away between the trees, and the roots and rocks of the trail blended into one brown-gray mess. I ...
Friday Group Ride #286
My wife and I share the grocery shopping duties, and each of us produces a very different result. She makes a list. She sticks to the list, and we eat what she buys. She likes to run out of ...
Zipp Tangente Speed R28
Zipp has overhauled its tire line. By all appearances, they started from scratch. Now that there is a body of evidence that has demonstrated how wider tires can cut rolling resistance, Zipp has ...
The Ultimate Gravel Pedal
I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that Speedplay’s Richard Bryne may be the most creative person in the bike industry. He came up with the first design for aero bars, invented ...