Route Finding
I have memories of my life before Cycling, but as the years wear slowly on my mind their edges become less pronounced, like water wearing…
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The Color White
I saw the Black Crowes in concert some years ago, and as the band swung into their first number, Chris Robinson casually strolled onstage wearing…
Youth
I’ve never been afraid of imitating my heroes, they always seemed like the best examples available and as a student of life (as every child is)…
Support Your Local Framebuilder
I won’t hold liking cats against you, but if you don’t like dogs, you’re dead to me. Some things aren’t left to opinions, like whether…
Merckxy Christmas and Coppi New Year!
Another year come and gone, another pile of New Year’s resolutions out the door, done and dusted. It’s a good thing I don’t recall what they…
On Rule #3: Role Modelling
What we do in life echoes in eternity. – Maximus, Gladiator We all make mistakes. We can only hope that they are not repeated by…
Patience
It’s been about a month since I’ve last been on the bike; I can’t recall the last time I went for such a dry spell.…
Shifting Sands
One of my favorite stories in Cycling is of the 1989 World Championships. It was a very lumpy parcours, with a particularly tough climb near…
Winter
As Cyclists, we are uniquely subjected to the changing of seasons. The green canopy of forest that we ride through in Summer gives way in…
Guest Article: The Longest Road
Let us thank @The Oracle for contributing this guest article. We haven’t been putting up many guest articles so it’s good to have something substantial…
La Vie Velominatus: The Joyride
There are very few experiences as incredible as riding a bike; the wind in your face, the sensation of generating speed under your own power, the…
The Good Wolf
One evening, an elderly Cherokee brave told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, “my son, the battle is between…
Waiting for the Man
You have three questions going through your mind: How far to go? How hard am I trying? Is the pace sustainable for that distance? If…
An Open Letter to Drivers
I imagine that unless you’re a Cyclist, it is quite difficult to understand what it’s like to ride a bicycle on the open road amongst…
Ebb and Flow
As Tyler Farrar rode by in the other direction, we gave each other a subtle wave; not the wave between friends, but between brothers of the road. On…
Lights On Legs
Cycling is made up of hundreds of minute details, forming a larger entity which is generally simplified and viewed as the intrinsically simple act of riding––or racing––a bicycle.…
The Quitter
The truth is that I’d been thinking about quitting for the best part of forty-five minutes. Round and round I went on that track, every…
On Rule #28: The Case for Black Socks
Science has proven that people who wear crazy socks are smarter than those boring snooze factories who wear simple plain socks. I know the data supporting…
Festum Prophetae: Waiting for the Hour
Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. – Mike Tyson The one thing everyone should always plan for is that however…
On Rule #93: The Throw Down
The human mind is designed to forget how much things suck. That is a fact. If women had the capacity to retain meaningful data on how horrible…