Have you ever heard of an “extremophile?” No, it’s not your friend who only listens to identical-sounding black metal bands with identical-looking scratchy letter logos. An extremophile is an organism that can survive pretty much anything, like

So the bad news is that unless you won the giveaway Riv-away yesterday you didn’t win:

But the good news is that

If you read this blog regularly (or at all for that matter), you might be under the impression I’m a total Rivendell shill–and obviously you’d be right. However, nobody at Rivendell ever asks me to mention anything on this blog, which probably has far less to do with integrity than it does with self-preservation, since no sane company would ever want its products associated w...

Okay, look, I know I shouldn’t automatically reject things just because they’re new, but what are we even doing here?

I’m not like a bike designer or an engineer or whatever, but there’s got to be a bette...

Well it certainly looks like the Perry Ruby was not wanting for excitement:

It’s also strangely comforting to see that for all the so-called “advancements” in bicycle wheel and tire technology, inopportune punctures remain an integral part of bicycle racing. For as Ben Franklin sagely observed, the only certainties in life are death and taxes, but since that t...