I am a lucky guy on many fronts. But for the purpose of this review, I’ll bring up just one: my wife. Amongst her many wonderful traits, she has a very high tolerance for my collection of bike ...
Monthly Archives: June 2019
Friday Group Ride #459
Is it sad that Chris Froome’s serious crash and subsequent withdrawal from the Tour de France has me more interested in this year’s race than I was before? It feels a little sad. Even ...
Paceline Podcast 161
We begin with a reader question about how to rescue a day that doesn’t seem to be going according to plan. You’re not as fast as you thought, don’t have the power you ...
The Pull: Paul Sadoff of Rock Lobster Cycles, Part II
First up, thanks for enduring this several-week break due to my travels. I would have loved to get an episode squeezed in there somehow, but today’s show required a fair bit of tending to create; ...
The Race Across America
When the cycling bug bit me back in the 1980s, I began, like all of you, I suspect, to digest all the bike magazines out there. In that era Bicycling had a real thing for the Race Across America. ...
You Can’t Always Get What You Want
You can’t always get what you want You can’t always get what you want You can’t always get what you want But if you try sometimes you might find You get what you need —Jagger ...
Friday Group Ride #458
A brand is a funny thing, isn’t it. A name, a feeling, a history (or some sort of story) attached to products of a certain type and a certain quality, sometimes varying wildly over time. ...
Paceline Podcast 160
Selene is tough. We all knew that. But last weekend, she went to Oklahoma for an event known as Tulsa Tough. The question of the day? Which is tougher: Tulsa, or Selene? Easy there, champ. ...
Humbled: Dirty Kanza 200
There are those race courses that have been etched into history like so much granite. The Monaco Grand Prix, the Daytona tri-oval, the Boston Marathon. Those courses are as much a part of their ...
Friday Group Ride #457
An increasing number of people are coming to me to ask why cyclists look so stupid. The first few I answered with a nod and a chuckle. The next few I took more seriously (and mostly agreed with, ...