Getting hit by a self-driving car hurts more

  You’ll surely be blamed for getting hit. Worse than the opprobrium that will come if you ever get hit by a car and you’re not wearing a helmet. That’s what happened when Uber’s self-driving […]

The NAHBS Experience

As I was chatting at one end of the NAHBS floor, a show veteran walked by and struck up a conversation. As we got into it, he urged me to check out the booth on […]

Can’t Stop Disc Brakes

Is it performance or fatalism? Road bikes are going to get disc brakes. This much has been clear for the past few years.    But there’s much to suggest the reason is fatalism, not better […]

Problems With This Testosterone TUE

Let’s stipulate there’s a racer out there who feels tired.  He blames it on his work.  But when he changes his job, he’s still tired. He goes to a doctor.  The doctor comes up with […]

Malcolm Gladwell Isn’t Really Trying

Malcolm Gladwell’s writing doesn’t break a sweat. His game is taking complicated-seeming ideas and, over the course of a breezy tour, reducing them to fairly simple explanations. It’s a great skill and an act that […]

Read Run, Swim, Throw, Cheat

  Doping is not going away. It’s everywhere in sport and has been around for longer than most realize. I find the dismissive wave of “everyone’s doing it,” both overly simplistic and entirely missing the […]

The Glucose Anti-Solution

Why the common elements in doping narratives Doom any Truth and Reconciliation Commission   In his book Breaking The Chain, Drugs and Cycling – The True Story, Willy Voet tells of a moment in the […]

What we should have been talking about When we talked about UCI Rule 1.2.019

The ruckus over UCI Rule 1.2.019 earlier this year left me unmoved. The rule seems kind of dumb in that it seems too broad, the UCI hasn’t explained the value of the rule, and USA […]

Lance Armstrong and the Jedi Mind Trick

One of the fascinating things about the Armstrong saga is what we can learn about the world from how information about him, when brought to light, is received. I’m amazed when people, sometimes unknowingly, cite […]

The NAHBS Yawn

            Another North American Handmade Bicycle Show is coming. Another round of massive image galleries and unqualified praise is about to be served. I expect to come the same conclusion I made last year. NAHBS […]