Denise Fuller at the RAGBRAI forum writes (note that the historical record has disappeared since I offered the following as a board-certified advice columnist): What little piece of advice can you give new riders and this could be silly or common sense information. Mine would be to remember to check…

Biggin Hill, 2009

Recently I found myself in need of a bike for life, my last one having proved short-lived. I wanted something custom built because I was, too. …

I’m not a member of any clubs unless you count the Velosolo Club, whose official stance is to neither confirm nor deny membership. The closest I come is The Fridays, to whom I haven’t paid dues for a number of years as I consider myself exempt from such trivialities.* It…

Tech isn’t my strong suit. My wife can analyse a computer system (at least I think that’s what a systems analyst does), and is in charge of resetting the clock on the boiler, while I typically handle the more… physical chores. When our home broadband went out last month…

Jack Fuller was fuming. His latest masterpiece — or folly, as local wags had it — wasn’t going according to plan. As it was to be his home until judgement day, could anybody blame him for being so particular about its construction? If he’d told the builder once, he’d told…

Thanks for my dream bike. The dream lasted about 10 years. You know how it ended: by me hanging up on you mid-sentence. I’ll leave it to whoever else reads this to decide whether or not they’d have done the same thing. It was in 2011 that I fell for…

Cycling Plus, November 2002 Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care? -Chicago No offence to the very late John Harrison, or the Swiss, or my wife, who has separated our house into minute time zones to aid her morning routine,* but I couldn’t really care…

Cycling Today, October 2000 I don’t CARE. -Tommy Lee Jones When the editor of Cycling Today gave me this column a little over two years ago, he reminded me that it could be used as a force for good or evil, and as it was to appear in a responsible…