Tying Off the Past
Now that Pat McQuaid has been voted out of the UCI presidency and the troubled institution is being led by Brian Cookson, there is some reasonable hope that a Truth and Reconciliation Commission will...
View ArticleVote for RKP!
RKP has applied for a $250,000 grant through a program with Chase Small Business called Mission Main Street. To be considered, though, we need a little love. Specifically, we need 250 votes, one for...
View ArticleResolution
With the release of the book “Wheelmen” by Reed Albergotti and Vanessa O’Connell of the Wall Street Journal, Lance Armstrong, the US Postal Service, EPO and Greg LeMond are all back in the news. While...
View ArticleReview: The Armstrong Lie
The Who album “Who’s Next” was meant to be a concept album, called “Lifehouse,” the follow-up to “Tommy.” It was meant to resonate with Eastern mysticism and spirituality and was so ambitious it was...
View ArticleTorchbearers: Spectrum Cycles, Part I
Padraig: Where are you based? Tom Kellogg: We’re based in Breinigsville, Pennsylvania, one town west of Trexlertown where the velodrome is in the Lehigh Valley of East Central Pennsylvania....
View ArticleTorchbearers: Spectrum Cycles, Part II
Padraig: Tell us about the jig you use. Tom Kellogg: Believe it or not, I made the jig in my parent’s basement in the fall of ’76. I made a jig plate and had a local machine shop in Philly make the...
View ArticleMeet Your Maker Tour
Let’s keep this one simple: Builders in Northern California have been holding a series of rides called the “Meet Your Maker Tour.” It’s a chance to meet and ride with some of NorCal’s finest builders....
View ArticleMeet Your Maker #4
When I first heard of the Meet Your Maker ride series earlier this year I did everything I could to try to find an excuse to get to Northern California to participate in any of the rides. I was a...
View ArticleXpedo Thrust SL Pedals
In riding the Xpedo Thrust SL I experienced an odd and surprising epiphany, one only tangentially related to my own preferences in cycling gear. With one possible exception, it is possible I’ve never...
View ArticleThe Tour de Turtle
I’ve ridden in my fair share of charity events over the years. From the original AIDS Ride to rides for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) and a couple of MS150s, I’ve participated in all...
View ArticleBook Review: Wheelmen
Our species likes stories to be relatively straightforward and with a minimum of characters. Just think of how many movies you’ve seen with half a dozen or so speaking parts. Off the top of my head I...
View ArticleLooking the Part
I’m fundamentally a form-follows-function person. That’s not to say that I think that clothing, buildings and home furnishings all need to be austere to the point of Bauhausian sterility, but I think...
View ArticleTorchbearers: Dave Wages/Ellis Cycles, Part I
Padraig: Where are you based? David Wages: I’m right in Waterford, Wisconsin. Padraig: Is that where you grew up? David Wages: No, actually I grew up in upstate New York. It was a big move for me to...
View ArticleThanksgiving
A friend I don’t get to ride with very often came into town and joined us for our Wednesday ride today. At some point, after we’d done the chit-chat about our riding lives, he asked, “So how’s the rest...
View ArticleTorchbearers: Dave Wages/Ellis Cycles, Part II
Padraig: Tell us about the jig you use. David Wages: It’s pretty minimal. I have an Anvil Journeyman fixture for frames and an Anvil fork fixture. I have a few other pieces of machinery. I have drill...
View ArticleThe Hampsten Gavia Shirt
A bit more than six months ago I had an idea. This happens to me all the time and usually no one gets hurt. Normally, I have ideas that are best executed in prose and then I sit down and bang away at...
View ArticleBook Review: The Elite Bicycle
Coffee-table books about handmade steel frames have become a bona fide category within cycling books. The latest to join the market is “The Elite Bicycle” by Gerard Brown and Graeme Fife. The reason...
View ArticleA Trademark Debacle
I’m with my family in Hawaii, theoretically on vacation. I say theoretically because I’ve been at my keyboard and on the phone far more than I promised my wife I would be. And the reason why is Charles...
View ArticleThe Challenge of Commerce
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my professional life to hold universally true, it’s that you don’t want to have a right-brained creative type manage a right-brained creative type, especially where...
View ArticleThe Schwinn Biking Game
When I was a kid getting a new board game for Christmas didn’t rank quite as cool as a new toy or model, but it was way better than receiving clothing. I recall how my parents were always excited to...
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