When I was a young man I carried the arrogance that only youth can muster. Once I learned something, I operated with the belief that the matter was finished. The earth is a sphere. LSD is a bad ...
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Friday Group Ride #491
I’m convinced there’s alchemy involved. It’s so hard to articulate what will make a great bike great, much easier than it is to look back, once the bike is built and say what ...
Handlebar Evolution: the Wave Bar
Back in the early 2000s FSA, which has been the home to more creative ideas than the industry gives them credit for (see: subcompact cranks, etc.), came out with a handlebar called the K-Wing. ...
A Revelation in Ti: the Sage Skyline
When I was in high school I took a course at the University of Memphis through their continuing education program on the music business. It was meant to serve as an introduction to how the ...
Friday Group Ride #483
It was a simpler time, one crank option, 53-39 rings, what was known as “standard,” although it isn’t anymore. Coupled with a narrow range cassette, you earned all your vertical ...
Assemblage: Factor Vista
Recently, I’ve been building up a Factor Vista gravel bike for review. As I shared on a recent episode of the Paceline, I’ve been thoroughly impressed with the frame module, which is ...
Traction Without Exception: the Michelin Wild AM
After a few years of watching road tires improve by bounds, if not leaps, the advancement seems to be leveling off, save for the incremental improvements I’m seeing in tubeless road tires. ...
The Do-It-All Trainer: Minoura Kagura LST9200
The season for riding inside has arrived. Don’t anyone cheer too loudly; it’ll disturb the neighbors. But like it or not, for many of us, inside is the only place worth riding for ...
Friday Group Ride #475
It’s 2019, and sentiment is in recession. All the forces of progress are chipping away at the value of physical things as we convert long, personal letters to terse emails and frivolous ...