Citizen Rider

Some advice and a lot of first-hand anecdotes and observations from someone who accidentally had a career in the bike business.

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Sunday, September 10, 2023

Ignorance is Economical

When I returned to the bike business in 1989, the mountain bike boom was still billowing upward into the mushroom cloud that peaked in the...

Sunday, April 25, 2021

The benefits of neglect and obscurity

Being forgotten by the technological world for decades was one of the best things to happen to bicycling. The machinery evolved very slowly...

Sunday, September 02, 2018

Naive bike nerds

At lunch one day I was leafing through a book that Specialized put out to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Stumpjumper mountain bike....

Friday, March 23, 2018

The misunderstanders write the history books

Dredging around on the interwebs for a certain specific mutant mountain bike from the 1990s, I found a site depicting bikes of that period, ...

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cafiend: I like to explore under my own power. I like to avoid using motor vehicles, but I'm not obsessive about it. Okay, maybe I'm a little obsessive about it.

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