Traveling With a Bike Sucks IX: Disc Brake Maintainance While Traveling
Disc brakes have become the norm for drop bar bikes, relegating rim brakes to the Collector’s Item category. I’m not saying they’re bad, I’m saying…
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Exploring the Costa Blanca from Valencia to Cartagena and Back
The winter had been brief and dry. We hadn’t seen such a bad snowpack since the fabled winter of ‘76-77, the one that inspired every…
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Thanks, Bobby
It was the era of cassettes. A guy in a chair, seated in silhouette, tie flowing behind him, told us Maxells were the best. Some…
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Hell in a Bucket – A Report After About 6 months and 400 miles
2025 became the year of the drop-bar 29er, and I was firmly on board. The feel of underbiking on a singletrack trail that has been…
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Tales of Green Spain: Across the North Coast
”A journey of a thousand miles begins with at least one clusterfuck” (Lao Tzu’s first, less famous, but more accurate, draft) You can plan…
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My regular reader knows I have a weak spot for cycling in Spain. As I’ve gained experience in the country, I’ve started to figure out…
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Questionable Decisions: The Bicycle Design Process
I design things, I always have. For over 30 years I’ve designed architectural lighting and controls, but my over-caffeinated brain doesn’t limit itself to just…
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Titanium Anodizing
Like most things “bicycle”, nothing is really new. After all, the very first gravel bikes were just bikes, because pavement had not been invented (it…
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The Best-Kept Cycling Secret in Spain
It’s no surprise that Spain is a wonderful cycling destination. Pros have attended untold numbers of winter camps in Valencia, Calpe, Mallorca, and Malaga; lyrca…
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Betting on a Slim Chance
For those who managed to digest all 4,000 words of the story of how the Slim Chance made it to my house, you certainly deserve…
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