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Tested: Rapha Women’s Winter Tights

6 Comments 02 February 2012

A few weeks ago, Rapha sent over the Women’s Winter Tight for review. I took them out for a week’s worth of rides including a few (2-hour) commutes and two 4-hour training rides and then wrote a re-cap of first impressions for the next issue of Peloton Magazine. Since then, they’ve been on heavy rotation [...]

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Love For Sale. (Pinarello, Batavus, LeMond, Specialized Stumpjumper!)

6 Comments 14 February 2011

Ok, boys and girls – it’s the Grit & Glimmer big bike blowout. I’m letting go of four of my bikes and, though it breaks my heart to do it, the time has come. All of these bikes are being sold simply because they are not being ridden. (If you ask me, that’s the most [...]

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I Used to Ride Bikes. A Lot. (Guest Post by Matt O’Rourke)

9 Comments 30 December 2010

My dear friend Matt O’Rourke wrote this earlier this week and nearly made my little bicycle heart break with longing and happiness. He has kindly agreed to let me publish it here as a guest post. Matt and I are old buddies from my advertising days in San Francisco. We reunited a few years ago [...]

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Dear Diary

Dear Diary 012: A Twig Snapping

3 Comments 16 November 2010

Cyclists crash all the time. I realize I’m not special. But hitting the ground the way I did 12 days ago – and what happened in the time that it took me to get to the pavement – jarred me in a way that other accidents haven’t. In my description of the crash I write [...]

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Paint My Coffin Pink: Rapha Gentleman’s Race Report Part 2

4 Comments 17 August 2010

Missed Part One? Catch up and read This is How We Die. Photo Credit to the amazing Jose Sandoval * Eight miles on Highway 30 lead us to the last bits of civilization before the start of Otto Miller. We pass a bike shop, load up on a hearty supply of spare tubes, and cruise [...]

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Photos

Photos: Hot Asphalt and Camping in Recovery Tights

10 Comments 09 August 2010

Just the photos. Stories later.

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