February 10, 2017
Bike of the Week: Purple Pegoretti
A purple people-eater Pegoretti's very non-traditional paint scheme meets a decided un-Pegoretti build kit with this Bike of the Week.
February 09, 2017
Absolution of the Boring Race Bike: Riding the Trek Domane RSL
Catalysts are interesting things. The Trek Domane Race Shop Limited was ours when it came to our peculiar relationship with Trek. Aggressively unique geometry, looks to kill, enormous tire clearance, and...fender mounts? While it was Fabian Cancellara's bike of choice for the Classics, it's climbing our own podium for one...
February 02, 2017
The Escape From LA: Stage 4
California is a place of contrast, even at its periphery along the coast. The transition from what's colloquially known as Southern California to the great lost innards of the Central Coast is subtle, yet jarring at the same time. Jagged topography populated primarily by rocks and scrub oak gives way...
February 02, 2017
The Escape From LA: Stage 3
Looking incredulously at the chicken and waffles placed in front of my gaping maw, I wonder how I got here. By here, I mean this prototypical breakfast spot in a prototypical coastal California burg. Incredulous? It's because my chicken and waffles have been made with drumsticks. I am an unabashed...
February 01, 2017
The Escape From LA: Stage 2
Southern California is as massive as it is convoluted. The sprawling, writhing mass of humanity that emanates forth from the 101/110 interchange wraps its way around the contours of the LA Basin, spilling out at the edges, like an overfilled bowl of soup ported from the stove to the table....
February 01, 2017
The Escape From LA: Stage 5
For anyone who's ever raced a longer stage race, there's a sense of physiological familiarity that happens somewhere around the third day, and it compounds, like interest. Getting out of bed becomes harder. Walking is laborious. Stairs are devastating. Mental faculties deteriorate. Sleep is precious, and the growing mountain of...
February 01, 2017
Trek's Emonda: How Light is Too Light?
TREK'S EMONDA: HOW LIGHT IS TOO LIGHT? Forming an intimate relationship with one's bicycle is usually nurtured over the course of months, perhaps years, and through that same time period's flow of experienced emotions. With Trek's Emonda SLR, I got to form it in five days during Above Category's Escape...
January 27, 2017
Bike of the Week: A GGG Corretto
In a world of instant gratification, patience is a concept that's nearly been forgotten. But sometimes the wait, the anticipation, is an important part of the fun. This week we feature a bike that spanned over a year from the initial dream to delivery of a truly amazing ride. A...
January 16, 2017
Reviewed: Trek Madone RSL
July 19th, 2003: A 20 year-old me was watching Le Tour stage from Toulouse to Ax 3 Domaines. I was watching the Der Kaiser, bedecked in Bianchi Celeste, sticking it to a faltering and later discovered, badly dehydrated American named Lance Armstrong, whom I was never a fan of. I...
January 06, 2017
Introducing Trek
AN UNCOMMON UNION I stepped off the plane into a sweltering Midwestern summer. Madison, Wisconsin is not a place I'd ever thought I'd ever set foot in - willingly. I've arrived in America's Dairyland in the midst of August with much more than a hair's breadth of trepidation. My name...
December 30, 2016
Learning to Hate Yourself and Love the Machine: Surviving Riding Indoors
ON TRAINING INDOORS The mention of the phrase "base miles" sends chills down the spine of many a cyclist in northern climes - visions of frostbite, sleet, snow, marathon trainer sessions, spousal threats of divorce, and the pungent aroma of greasy embrocation laden with capsaicin all pollute the mind. We’ve...
