Three Points in Space
Most great ideas in life are accompanied by an unforeseen consequence of equal or greater magnitude. For instance, no one predicted that the Industrial Revolution…
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Joe Kid on a Moto-Bike
Never forget your roots, they say… OK, I’m a child of the 70’s, and back then bicycles were as big a part of my life as…
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Kermis: Breaking Away
July 13 2014 marked the 35th anniversary of the seminal ‘cycling film’ Breaking Away. 35 years. Nothing stays popular for that long, right? Things get…
Guest Article: Ride Like a Rock Star
Yes, this makes three Guest Articles in three weeks, but we run the show around here and we do what we want. Especially when it comes…
La Vie Velominatus: Transcension
When it comes to Rule Compliance, we have at our disposal three viable options. The first is to Obey the Rules. That one is pretty straight-forward because we…
Motoman
Before Tomac and Ned, before LeMond and Big Mig, there was Bob Hannah. For a young lad obsessed with motorcycles as well as bicycles, the…
The Cycle of Style
There are two ways in life to be good at something. The first way is the most obvious, which is to actually be good at…
In Memoriam: The LBS
There was a time when I held down ‘real jobs’. Jobs with (a little) stress, with (some) responsibility, but without soul. And while dealing with the…
Anatomy Of A Photo: Point And Shoot
“You ruined a heap of photos!” Not the words you want to hear when the photos in question are ones you didn’t shoot, but were…
Maglia Nera
On our trip to Paris, my wife and I, in need of culture, rode the Vélib bikes to Cycles Laurent. This was our first French…
European Posterior Tubular (EPTB)
The divisive nature of Rule #29 is not to be underestimated. It is but a humble satchel, but our rejection of its use sends people completely out of…
Something Beautiful
Despite the proclivity towards being all-knowing that comes as a consequence of my being Dutch, the most beautiful things in life are discoveries that come…
In Search of Power
It’s no secret that I’m prone to riding in the big ring as much as possible, mostly on account of my not being a giant…
The Roundness of Being
Evolution doesn’t really seem to be part of the picture anymore, at least not where humans and our direct reports are concerned. We control an…
The Janus of Suffering
I came strongly into the Fall, stronger than in other years thanks to a late-season objective to do well at my first Heck of the…
Speed
I wasn’t anywhere near old enough to hold a driver’s license but my dad had already bought me a motorcycle. It was a late seventies…
La Vie Velominatus: Rebirth
Wind is an asshole. I have no patience left for it. It has all of it been used up, gone, finished. It is the only force…
Raining in My Heart
Not one to subscribe to the slew of text speak or acronyms that permeate the modern vernacular (well, not too much, I guess YJA is…
Post-Ride Recovery Ales
The most important moment in a man’s life is the first time they have a beer. I place it on the list above sex and…
In Memoriam: Il Pirata, Ten Years Gone
I don’t know if it’s because I see something of myself in them or if it awakens some kind of nurturing instinct, but I always…