The Retrogrouch

After several days of non-stop rain, our Memorial Day Monday turned out to be a perfect day for a bike ride. Brilliant sunshine, low humidit...

Here in Akron we're having an early heat wave. It's unusual for us to be hitting the upper 80s in mid May like this, but that's ...

Anyone who reads this blog with any regularity knows that I am fortunate to live near, and to be able to do a lot of my riding in and around...

As I'm sitting here typing this, the sun is once again shining in through the window after a solid week of rain in NE Ohio. No joke - it...

 I wrote some months back that I've been testing a Brooks saddle - specifically a B17 "Imperial" or "carved" model. ...

It's been a while, hasn't it? The past few months have been pretty uninspiring when it comes to writing blog posts. Combined with wo...

As if to prove that keeping a "keeper of the flame" classic steel bike business alive in a carbon-fiber world is no easy feat (com...