We meticulously care for our bicycle, stopping only just short of pampering it. Through ages spend coveting, building, and riding…
Why would any sane person choose to suffer? The answer to this question is a primal one and of particular…
With Keepers Tour: Cobbled Classics 2012 stitched up and in the history books, the challenge of documenting the trip became…
Finally we can speak to this Paris-Roubaix mythology. The Keepers Tour group rode twenty-one sectors at something much slower than…
You don't have to be in Flanders very long before you start to breathe in the history of the area.…
It was a simple time. Team kit was understated, with black shorts and a few colored panels on the jersey.…
As Keepers Tour crossed from dream to reality and routes over the cobblestones of Northern Europe were sketched out, with…
Andrei Tchmil got so tired of the palpable disappointment of not being Belgian that he decided to become one. Envision…
I can't understand the American obsession with finger food in general and sliders in particular. Finger food, in its strict…
Rule #22 is perhaps the most complicated Rule amongst the (currently) 85. Part of the complexity springs from the fact…
I did not expect the test to go well. To begin with, no beer holds up well at 96 degrees,…
The power of hair is not to be underestimated. Especially when it comes to having it carefully disheveled, with little bits poking…
Making a name for yourself in the pro ranks during the heyday of Merckx, De Vlaeminck, and Maertens would have…
We are not hard. We may espouse the values of the mythical hardman, but we are merely pretenders to the…
Cyclists can be a twitchy lot. Able to both endure and dish out pain for weeks on end in a…
If ever there was a photo that illustrated why anyone would be given the monicker, "The Canibal", this is it. I…
I posted this picture as a joke in yesterday's Anatomy of a Photo piece, but I find myself going back to it…
As cyclists, our legs bristle with anticipation at the sight of a hairpin turn. Stitch a series of them together…
We gather here today to pay our respects to one of the icons of our great sport, the cycling cap.…
There are several moments in my childhood when I realized the bike held a more meaningful place in my life…