To put it crudely, it takes balls to be the Classic Cycle Old Crap Test Pilot: Good thing I have a pair of test-cycles, though admittedly one of them is pretty small: While I haven't had the Pashley Moulton (which, going forward, I shall refer to as the PashMo) for long, I've already started to... Continue Reading →

Okay, now this is a devious spam text: Normally I just block and delete, but I came very close to answering this one. "Hey! This isn't Grant but I am one of his acolytes! What was the gift? Was it Scottish cotton? Was it a LoNo derailleur?!? I really wanna know! Can I see a... Continue Reading →

This past Friday saw the submission deadline for The Seventeenth Inaugural Tan Tenovo Meh-Roica Bike Pageant: Brought to you by Dumonde Tech, the champagne of lubes: Since then I notice one or two of you have inquired about the winner, which... [Deep breath.] Okay, let's get something straight here. That deadline was for you, not... Continue Reading →

Hey, look, Richard "K-Farb" Sachs is making gravel bikes now! https://www.instagram.com/p/DeojsuoA9Uf/ Nice color, somebody has good taste. IF I GOT IT I'd choose something similar. Of course some people think you need suspension to ride on GRVL, and despite being both literally and figuratively rigid insofar as my approach to bicycles is concerned, at the... Continue Reading →

Just because I'm old and set in my ways and have no interest in or patience for anything new or different, that doesn't mean I don't try new things once in awhile, like going for a ride late in the day instead of early in the day: By the way, get a load of those... Continue Reading →

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fredline is upon us: That's right, no more submissions after 12pm EST EDT PTSD my time, which is whatever time it is in New York, and if you want to know what time it is in New York then visit your search engine of choice and type in the words, "What... Continue Reading →

As the deadline for the Meh-roica Whatever-It's-Called Contest (sponsored by Dumonde Tech, the Dom Pérignon of Bicycle Lubricants™) approaches, the entries are flowing in so smoothly it's almost like the entire contest has been doused in Dumonde Tech, the Dom Pérignon of Bicycle Lubricants™: [Dumonde Tech, the Dom Perignon of...you get it.] For example, consider... Continue Reading →

You now have two more days to enter the inaugural edition of the 35th Annual Meh-Roica Bicycle Beauty Pageant: Sponsored by Dumonde Tech, the Dom Pérignon of bicycle lubricants: [WARNING: Do Not Drink] And if you're unfamiliar with Dom Pérignon, it's the Dumonde bicycle lubricant of fizzy alcoholic drinks: Glad we could clear that up...... Continue Reading →

In the early days of this blog, when Fixie Fever was running way into the red zone, the must-have wheel for your carefully curated track bike was the Aerospoke: Like many trends from that era, this one was somewhat bewildering, since the Aerospoke was basically a really heavy wheel you'd skip over in the Nashbar... Continue Reading →

Hey, it's Friday, how do you like that? Here in the processed meat of the North American sandwich (we're the deli ham, Canada and Mexico are the bread) it's also the start of a three-day weekend! See, this coming Monday is the day we used to call "Columbus Day:" But colonialism is bad, bad, bad,... Continue Reading →