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And to Think I Made Fun of It
Back in February I poked fun at the Infinity Seat, an innovative new approach to a bicycle saddle that bucks conventional wisdom and distributes the rider's weight to the muscle mass of the buttocks,...
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For the Top 1% of the Top 1%
Every time I think I've seen it all, something comes along to set a new benchmark of over-the-top ridiculousness.Just days after bemoaning $3600 wheels, and over-priced wünderbikes for the richest 1%,...
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Deore: The First Touring Gruppo
There was a time when, if you wanted a great touring bike, you pretty much had to build it yourself. If you had a healthy budget and knew where to look, you could have a good frame built for you by...
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Happy July 4th
Just a quick post today for those two or three people who are sitting around wasting time on the internet instead of celebrating America's birthday.My little neighborhood in Akron always has a July 4th...
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Bicycle Innovations For People Who Don't Ride Bikes
I'm always skeptical when "home fashion" and "lifestyle" magazines write about bicycles and bicycle gear -- they almost always highlight the most inane and pointless "innovations" designed to appeal to...
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Contador's Broken Bike: A Surprise? Really?
For the past week, I've been pretty much without internet access -- making it difficult to keep up the blog (or to keep up with much of anything, for that matter). But look at what happened in the...
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Riding in Hawaii
Regular readers have probably noticed I didn't have a new post for about a week or so -- I was away on a family vacation, and even though I expected to still get to the blog at least a couple of times...
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Who's in Whose Way?
While I was out of town riding around Maui, disconnected from the internet and the news back home, I missed this enlightening story from my hometown paper, the Akron Beacon Journal:Apart from offering...
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Tour de France Coverage: Retrogrouch Style
45 years ago . . .A young Belgian rider named Eddy Merckx rode his first Tour de France. Arriving at the prologue on June 28, 1969, his bike bore his own name emblazoned on the down tube and his own...
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Eddy Merckx's '69 TdF Bike
After putting an incomparable stamp of authority on his first Tour de France in 1969, Eddy Merckx would become a legend. During that Tour debut, a French rider named Christian Raymond, dubbed Merckx...
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Retrogrouch TdF Coverage: 1989
It was 25 years ago . . .At 3285 km, the '89 Tour was one of the shorter races in history -- but the competition made it one of the most dramatic.From the very beginning the 1989 Tour de France...
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Tour de France Bikes 1989
Many people look at the 1989 Tour de France as being significant not only for the high drama of the battle between Greg LeMond and Laurent Fignon, but also for ushering in an era of new technologies...
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Carbon Bikes in the NYT
Saw this article about carbon fiber bikes in the New York Times this weekend:Notice that the bike on the left sheared off at the fork. Yeah,it was a crash, but that'll never make it into the ads.I...
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Tour de France 2014
By now, anyone reading this already knows that Vincenzo Nibali won the Tour de France yesterday, the first Italian winner since Marco Pantani in '98. Nibali was just a kid when that happened.Nibali was...
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Expensive And Ugly
I recently spotted these new cranks from FSA, the K-Force Light -- which have the distinction of being not only eye-wateringly expensive, but also, eye-wateringly ugly. In fact, they probably...
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Brooks Saddles and Levi's Denim
Some people would never consider riding in jeans. As someone who isn't hung up on the notion that I always have to wear cycling clothes when on a bike, I'll ride in jeans now and then as long as I'm...
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Pino Morroni - A True Cycling Innovator
Some time back, I posted an article about Eddy Merckx and the Hour Record, and a close look at his Hour Record bike. The bike Merckx used for the record was built with numerous tricks to save weight,...
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Learning to Ride
My older daughter just learned how to ride a bike. She's a bit of a "late bloomer" as far as that goes, being that she turned 9 recently. I was afraid it might never happen. She's always been a pretty...
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Campagnolo Portacatena: A Neat Idea Whose Time Never Came
Back in June when I was doing some research for an article on the wonderful Nivex rear derailleur (see HERE) I found some pictures of the special Nivex dropouts with an integrated chain holder. The way...
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Slaying the Badger
"Strange thing about cycling," said sports journalist Samuel Abt, who covered many a bicycle race over the years, is "that it's an individual sport practiced by teams." Though sometimes puzzling to...
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