I’m sure we’ve done this one before, but for the sake of symmetry and positivity, let’s do it again. For me, the moment that springs to mind most readily is Christmas morning ...
Monthly Archives: May 2019
The Paceline 158
This week Selene admits that she’s been taking a fresh approach to some of the events she’s doing. And it’s not some new training regiment guaranteed to make you kick butt. ...
Fresh Feel: Giro Empire E70 Knit
In my early years as a cyclist in Memphis, Tenn., summer time was a sequence of rides that ended with my feet feeling like they were on fire. Something about black shoes, leather, humidity like a ...
Dirty Kanza: Come Say Hi!
We’ve heard from a few of you that you’ll be in Emporia, Kansas, for Dirty Kanza. Whether you’re planning to do the Half Pint or the full 200, we salute you. We’d also ...
Friday Group Ride #455
I was blessed to grow up in the ’70s, when the ten speed and BMX ruled the neighborhood and there wasn’t so much television to distract you from going outside to rage up and down the ...
Paceline Podcast 157
It’s been said that predicting a bad future is a way to set a negative intention. Last week Selene suggested she might not be 100 percent ready for the Keystone Offroad. It might not have ...
The Pull: Paul Sadoff of Rock Lobster Cycles, Part I
My guest this week is Santa Cruz-based builder Paul Sadoff of Rock Lobster Cycles. I first encountered Rock Lobsters in the late 1980s when mountain biking was exploding. It was only later that I ...
Scraping Bottom: King Ridge Dirt Supreme Grasshopper
After spending three months doing progressively longer events, stretching those riders who commit to the full series with ever tougher challenges, the fifth—and formerly final—Grasshopper is King ...
A Quest for Understanding
When I coined the term “red kite prayer,” it started almost as a joke, as a way to acknowledge the efforts that come at the end of the day, when the personal idiot light has been on ...
Friday Group Ride #454
Like you, I have been fortunate to own more bikes than I needed, more bikes than I reasonably ought, and more bikes than a sane person might want to pay for in two lifetimes. That’s ok. I ...