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What Women Want
What do women want? It’s a question that has perplexed the bike industry for decades and one that race promoters, editors, and manufacturers of bikes, clothes, accessories, and even energy products ask...
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Beauty Is Where You Find It
Cycling is a complete sensory experience. Warm sunshine. Wind. Birds calling overhead to the tires whirring on the ground below. And all of the sights. We climb mountains to soak in vistas. We choose...
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Pedaling for Answers
“Are we really racing in 10 minutes?” I asked Liz as I stood still rifling through my bags in the backseat of her friend Justin’s car, befuddledly messing with various combinations of layers,...
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Butt Seriously…
For me, it always starts in my knees—usually the left knee, around the upper inside “second kneecap” area, though it occasionally gives me an IT-band jab on the lateral side. It’s just a twinge at...
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She’s Got Legs
I have some alarming news. Riding a bike, especially if you do it with any frequency, will give you muscular legs. And that’s not all. Should you be unfortunate enough to be a sprinter or hill climber,...
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This Ride Called Life
Saturday evening I went to visit my aging grandmother who my mother had recently and reluctantly admitted into an assisted-living facility after many years of selflessly caring for her on her own. I...
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Born to Ride
Sometimes I worry that I’m one—or at best two—dimensional. I ride and I write. I write and I ride. I know I exist outside of those two things but if I didn’t do either, I fear I would cease to exist. A...
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Staying in the Sweet Spot
Cycling is a sport of balance beyond the obvious. Yes, you need to try to stay upright on your two wheels. And if you mountain bike, there are obstacles thrown in that can make that exceptionally...
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In the Name of Charity
“How much longer do we have to go?” I asked Dave, teetering on the edge of something…someplace…some sensation of slowly unraveling I’d never experienced while pedaling down the road. “10 miles?” he...
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What’s On Your Mind?
The more I think about it, the more I’ve decided I should just not think. Or at least I should delay my thinking until I’m very close to being done with whatever I’m doing, because that’s when all the...
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