Like most people, I engage in the time-honored tradition of pouring myself a cup of coffee in the morning and reading the "news." One of those news sources is Streetsblog, with which I have a fraught relationship: they are cloyingly smug and maddeningly self-contradictory; and yet, they are the best source of information for news... Continue Reading →

Yesterday I mentioned a video I'd be sharing shortly, and here is that video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVTA1_FAdtA While my unkempt appearance is more likely to frighten you away, the video is intended to promote Bike New York's Discover Hudson Valley ride on June 26th, and I can tell you firsthand that it's pretty darn nice up there:... Continue Reading →

As you're tired of hearing me mention by now, my last Outside column was a guide to Dirtbag Road Riding: https://twitter.com/outsidemagazine/status/1533794839996899331?s=20&t=GKSJyaON_8mbNPkU-OHLiA We've all got our favorite garments, but integral to this more-fun-with-fewer-fucks-given approach for me has been jeans and jorts, and in fact I've got another unpublished Outside column about riding in jeans which will... Continue Reading →

Things move fast in our modern world, what with the Internet, and hand-held wireless phones, and tapeless home video rental, and all the rest of it. Trends and sensibilities change faster than they ever have in human history. Consider gravel racing, for example: The first edition of this race took place in 2006 before the... Continue Reading →

At some point (I'm too lazy to figure out where) I promised a guide to Dirtbag Road Riding, and here it is! I can't figure out if a column about the road/gravel inversion that evokes L'Eroica is ironic or not, since L'Eroica is basically a gravel ride...but it's also a road ride...but it also happens... Continue Reading →

There's much I appreciate about living relatively close to the forbidding Trails Behind The Mall, and towards the middle-bottom area of that list is the fact that in front of the Trails Behind The Mall there is a mall, and in it is a stylized consumer electronics retailer noted for its sleek and suppository-like packaging:... Continue Reading →

Over the weekend I attempted to work in a quick ride in between thunderstorms: As I rode, I tried not to think about all the ticks hitching rides on my feet. (And no, that's not a tick, that's a mole. Sorry.) I also tried to will away the clouds gathering in the distance. However, as... Continue Reading →

As we begin the Memorial Day weekend I trust you are preparing to scamper off on your bicycles: Just beware of nonplussed wildlife: Also, hopefully you can finally land that Hyundai you've had your eye on: Speaking of wheeling and dealing, as you know I'm attempting to drive up the price of vintage bonded aluminum... Continue Reading →

This week has been harder to get a handle on than one of these things: By the way, I knew that I wanted to compare this week to one of those things but I had no idea what to call it, so here's how I found it: Don't let anyone ever tell you the Internets... Continue Reading →

Like the moon, an insect, or a petulant teenager, I tend to go through phases, and for the past few days I seem to be in a drop bar phase: However, I'm also in a friction shifter phase, which means I've been alternating between the Normcore Nostalgia Bike and the Vengeance Bike: The former I... Continue Reading →