About

There are no derailleurs here. Just bikes, rides, people, and places that prove one gear is enough.

At its core, this is a mountain bike publication. But it’s also a reaction to where I think the internet has gone.

Everything today seems optimized for 15-second videos, endless scrolling, and an algorithm deciding what you’re allowed to see next. As much as I hate to admit it, that’s where most of the attention has moved.

I miss the internet that made me want to read.

Long-form stories.

Editorials.

Ride reports.

Photography that wasn’t immediately swiped past.

The kind of articles where someone clearly cared enough to spend a few hours writing something worth your time.

So I built one.

The archive is organized the way it’s actually used: Stories for the culture and the manifesto-level stuff, bikes for individual builds, rides for real routes with GPX files attached, people for the riders behind the bikes, places for towns and trail systems, and tech for the gearing math and build guides single-speed riding actually requires. Collections pull related pieces together when a theme is worth grouping. It isn’t a product review site or a race results database. There are plenty of those already.

This started as one person’s bikes and rides, but it isn’t meant to stay that way. One feature I’m particularly proud of is that anyone can contribute.

If you’ve got a ride report, bike build, trail guide, race recap, editorial, or photo story you’d like to share, you submit it through the website. Behind the scenes, that becomes something that can be reviewed, edited, discussed, converted into web format, and ultimately published.

I wanted contributing to feel as lightweight as reading. A real bike, a real ride, and a couple of decent photos go a long way, and polished writing isn’t required. If that sounds like you, the submit page is open.

The content itself is exactly what I enjoy: mountain bike builds, trail guides around Golden, Colorado, single-speed culture, photography, mechanical disasters, editorials, and occasionally proving that one gear is enough. Or at least enough to get yourself into trouble.

Will long-form writing ever beat short-form social media again?

Probably not.

But I don’t think that means we should stop making things worth reading.

This is my small attempt to remind people what they’re missing.

If you’re into mountain bikes, photography, or just appreciate thoughtfully built projects, I’d love for you to take a look.

The long-form stuff lives here. New pieces get announced on Instagram if you’d rather follow along there first.