Tagged: essay
6 pieces.
- A Model of Efficiency
The Dirty Dozen Bike Race, Pittsburgh, PA
cyclingessay - Donnie Brasco / Kevin William Kenney
Donnie Brasco is not a movie about the Mafia. It is a movie about a job. My father was an undercover DEA agent who died at forty. I went to the orientation in Newark, walked out, and have three kids because of it.
filmfamilyessay - Same Brains, Higher RPMs
A hundred years of the same country, the same crowd, the same ideas. Faster wires and overclocked neurotransmitters.
essaypoliticsmedia - Fatigue Life: Steel Bikes
Norman Mailer hated plastic. On aluminum's silent fatigue life, carbon's all-or-nothing brittleness, and why steel is the only material that ages the way he wanted things to age.
cyclingcraftessay - Truing the Wheel
You cannot fix one spoke.
politicsessaysystems - Not a Torque Wrench in the Whole Country
On lubrication, karma, and the 53 grams between my face and a sewer grate.
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