The Paceline Cycling Podcast

Our man John is considering his good fortune. He has a home and nice bikes and friends who think he’s awesome. He also has someone who depends on him who is in a fix. What’s on his mind is how cycling teaches us to help when you can.  Patrick spoke with bike industry veteran Mark […]

A new shop has opened up near John, and he’s hopeful that they can make a go of it. His question is why it’s so hard to pay and keep good mechanics and why bicycle retailing isn’t a more profitable endeavor.  After some soul-searching in the wake of the end of a relationship, Patrick asks […]

Where are the bikes? Not the ones in your garage or your friend’s garage, but the ones that should be appearing on the floors of bike shops around the country. Demand has fallen off, possibly because non-bike-owning types are tired of waiting for bikes to show up from the factories. Robot digs into this question […]

Why is riding bikes with friends so good? We know it’s true, but can anyone really explain why? Our man John takes on the question. Did you pick up Covid pounds? Patrick did and now he’s trying to figure out how much discipline he’s willing to live by, how much of his diet he’s willing […]

The show is back now that Patrick has returned from his visit to Memphis. John takes on the subject of gravel riding and where it may go next. Could Redbull get interested in gravel racing? Should there be some sort of Protour?  Patrick had the opportunity to ride some mountain bike trails he last rolled […]

This week Robot follows up on threads from several previous episodes. He’d like us to believe he’s a short, bad human. We know that’s not true; he’s a robot.  Patrick takes on a listener question in the form of what kind of mountain bike to buy. This isn’t a brand question, it’s a type question. […]

This week our man about the gravel town, John Emlyn “Robot” Lewis, gives us an inside look at what happens when ego overrides good decision-making. For some it makes for comedy. For our hero, less so.  Patrick received a listener question about when the best time is to visit California for a summer mountain biking […]

John has a gravel event coming up this weekend, and he was wishing for something that would give him instant base miles, which he’s lacking. Instead, he managed to find a way to make the coming weekend more challenging, not less so.  It’s not uncommon for our non-cycling friends to come to us for advice […]

John may have talked his wife into another bike for their household. He’s not sure he’s at Wizard Level 10 yet, but she seems to agree with him.  Tandems are back into Patrick’s rotation of riding, or at least one tandem is back in rotation. He looks at why a bicycle built for two is […]

This week John talks about beginning to put together a calendar of events that he will enter. He’ll be fully vaccinated soon and the upshot is that he may actually have to get in shape. Patrick has been thinking about the letdown that can come at the end of a crisis. Once the danger is […]