Tag Archives: road bike

If The Gravel Bike Didn’t Exist

If the gravel bike didn’t exist, it’d be necessary to invent it. In fact, I believe that’s what we’ve seen occur over the last several years of frenzied gravel innovation. Speculation The reason that we didn’t really have something we called a “gravel bike” before was because we had the venerable and (recently) often-referenced 90sContinue reading “If The Gravel Bike Didn’t Exist”

Century #1: Sort Of

In the first part of September 2022, I developed a strange idea: I should ride a fixed gear a really long way. Background I don’t know what it says about me, psychologically, that I enjoy riding fixed gears as much as I do. The overwhelming majority of my road mileage in the last couple ofContinue reading “Century #1: Sort Of”

Weekly Stuff!

Welcome back to Weekly Stuff! At this point, I steadfastly refuse to provide a better title. This time, Luke has joined me to contribute whatever he found most interesting over the last week. He’s provided the first three links this time, and it’s helped me out significantly because he consumes a lot more cycling-related mediaContinue reading “Weekly Stuff!”

Why Singlespeeds, Really?

Sometime in the last two weeks, I set out to write an article with the thinking that I might examine what compels certain kinds of personalities to ride a singlespeed bike. I’m well disposed to answer this question because, for whatever reason, the vast majority of my riding time over the last decade has beenContinue reading “Why Singlespeeds, Really?”

Fewer Bikes, More Miles

The people I know that own few bikes do more miles than anyone else I know. By “few” I mean only up to about three, but that sentence doesn’t flow as well so I had to write this one explaining it. The people I know that own a well-established, diverse collection of bikes with overlappingContinue reading “Fewer Bikes, More Miles”

Fixed Gear Thoughts

It’s 2021 and I’m about to write a brand new fixed gear article because I personally haven’t gotten any good shots in on this dead horse. My only road bike is a fixed gear bike, a Bombtrack Needle of unknown and unimportant model year. It’s the one with the slightly lighter shade of green andContinue reading “Fixed Gear Thoughts”