Uh, who wants to tell the nice folks at Texas Monthly?

Minimum weight of a Toyota Tacoma over the past 30 years. 1995 2,560 lbs 2000 2,910 lbs 2005 3,140 lbs 2010 3,430 lbs 2015 3,645 lbs 2020 4,075 lbs 2025 4,145 lbs

I haven't been on Twitter for months so I decided to spend an hour looking around. The defining vibe: aggressive anti-wokeness—about politics, race, sex, gender, education, foreign affairs, even sports. Maybe Bluesky is an echo chamber but anyone who pretends Twitter isn't one too is mistaken.

Wonder how that would have played out if Vermeersch had been there to swap pulls with WVA and MVDP.

Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again

Hi I just wanted to say there's nothing remotely funny about someone rolling an SUV after being allegedly DUI and driving recklessly, especially after doing exactly that before. This sounds like someone who probably shouldn't have the privilege to drive and definitely someone who needs help.

We are sadly going to see this sort of injustice repeat itself many times in the foreseeable future. www.reuters.com/sports/olymp...

Human dynamics can be a real bitch.

Many of the folks who buy and install bike racks are not serious people.

Yves Lampaert does a quick inventory to see how many hard efforts he can make on a wet crosswinds Flemish day.

This is very much like a kermesse but don't be fooled it's not a kermesse.

If you are the sort of bike racing fan who is turned on by echelons, you should turn on the Ronde van Brugge right now.

Sally Jenkins shitting on someone for posting about their pleasure of making waffles is so on the nose that I'm still laughing 24 hours later.

Questioning my decision to defend the dude's apparel choices and inability to ride no hands now. What a weak sauce argument.

Citibike users have pedaled more than 650 million miles since the program's launch, replacing hundreds of millions of motor vehicle trips. Sounds like mass transport to me.

For those of you who aren't huge track and field fans, this is worth two minutes of your time. Cooper Lutkenhaus—a kid from Texas who still is in high school!—just won an indoor world championship in the 800. What a prodigy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqH_...

On an all-day ride on Saturday I started thinking about auto technology because I almost got doored twice— in Laguna Beach and Carlsbad. Since then I've been thinking—people are kind of hopeless IMO but maybe the car companies could implement tech that reduces the rate of dooring incidence?

I realize it's a very long race that is a low simmer for many hours, but it's hard to think of a monument that has delivered as many crazy finishes as Milan San Remo.

I hung out with a bunch of college boys—it's scary how sports betting is so pervasive. They've lost the ability to watch/enjoy sports without being the main character. Fantasy football and March Madness pools seem innocent but it's the same. It's awesome to watch sports and not think about yourself.

ICE at airports is a great way to make flying more miserable and show a whole new demographic how cruel and stupid this march toward authoritarianism really is.

That was fucking beautiful.

Pidcock looks surprisingly comfortable

Monumental

Seriously, anybody who gripes out loud about watching Milan San Remo needs help. No one is forcing you to watch.

The $200 billion that the Trump administration wants to bomb the shit out of Iran would be enough to make a college education free for all Americans AND feed all hungry kids in the US—for four years. Sometimes the inhumanity of our policies are just so cruel and dumb.

This story is infuriating. The piece goes to great lengths to establish empathy for the women who negligently killed an entire family. The idea that it's unreasonable to permanently revoke her driving privileges and make her plead guilty to a crime is fucking outrageous.

If you bought a $95,000 pickup that gets 12 mpg and now costs $198 to fill up if you live in LA, is the core problem really that US foreign policy is idiotic?

OMG, Mo's mom wrote me a note in the comments of the movie review on Escape. I might need to step outside and cry for a couple minutes.

Very similar to the AI revolution. Who are the winners here? Tech companies and their shareholders who want to "improve productivity" by reducing labor costs. Do consumers benefit? Does it make the world safer or less polluted? What is the benefit to society? www.cnbc.com/2026/03/19/u...

It's comically horrifying how the administration has fucked up everything. The economy is being destroyed by grift and idiocy. The world is unstable. Democracy, the environment, public health and education are being dismantled. The administration looks evil, childish, greedy and totally incompetent.

"The Chronicle reviewed CHP crash reports from each Bay Area county from Jan 2023 through the end of 2025 and found dozens of children have crashed on what reports describe as e-bikes. In some instances, children are getting hurt on actual electric motorcycles." www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Imagine the backlash if some shopping mall operator or big public facility decided that regular parking spaces were unsightly and boring and decided to replace them with facilities that weren't as functional but maybe had some whimsy that non-drivers could appreciate and only cost 50% more per space

Ponder just how much of this cliche artsy bike rack has no functional value to riders.

Many people say that Milan San Remo is kind of boring. Many people say that Pogacar's domination is kind of boring. Just noting aloud that Pogacar trying to figure out a way to win Milan San Remo is not boring.

This very well reported story offers a lot of detail of how clearly important mobility projects in California for pedestrians and bike riders are not being funded. Gov Newsom can be clever and effective at sparing but it's always unclear where his heart is at. www.sacbee.com/news/local/t...

Been YEARS since I've read some longform from my old friend Phil Gaimon, but this is worth the wait. It's extremely honest. And Phil is among the sharpest writers of any current or former pro athlete in any sport. Worth 10 minutes of your time. philgaimon.substack.com/p/hey-phil-s...

"An elderly woman was hospitalized with serious injuries after being struck by a juvenile on an electric bike in Orange County, police said." Oh, by the way, it was a Surron that can go 59 mph. An e-bike my ass. ktla.com/news/orange-...

Seen at the Venice-Santa Monica border. There’s a little plaque on the ground proclaiming that it’s an “artist-designed bike rack.” A fucking stupid artist-designed bike rack IMO.

the true crime fad really rubs me the wrong way and based on Peter's review it sounds like this steers clear of that narrative. i wasn't planning to watch it but i probably will great review from @pflax1.bsky.social and another killer piece on @escapecollective.bsky.social. they deserve your money.

Starting today, I'm going to do some semi-regular writing for my old friends at Escape Collective. First up: a review of an upcoming Netflix documentary that I was VERY nervous to watch, about the life and death of Moriah Wilson. escapecollective.com/exclusive-re...

"Cars are the most absurd means of transport in a city. They are parked 95 per cent of the time. It takes two tonnes to move someone who weighs 70 kilogrammes. And the denser the city, the more absurd it is."

Don't worry, Hegseth has a really smart plan if Iran tries to block US access to Dire Straits.

It has been this way since time immemorial. Spending a billion a day on a ‘not’ war. Meanwhile, all you suckers can starve, die because you can’t afford healthcare or find new treatments for disease. And who the fuck needs education and arts? We aren’t mad enough!!

I would just beg bike racing fans to contemplate the extraordinary liberation that comes from not giving a shit what anyone else on a bike wears. I get that there's something inherently funny to tease but it's a gateway to an elitist black hole that continues to hurt bike culture.

A typical story about a bike crash Headline: Parents Renew Safety Concerns After Student Hit by Car Near Liberty Hill Schools News hook: A kid on a bike is hit after school by a driver in an intersection w/o traffic control or a crossing guard Community reaction below www.kxan.com/news/local/w...

I guess it's worth explaining why I hate artsy or jokey bike racks. It's like a Lightning McQueen bed, turning something functional into a goofy novelty. If you run a mall, you wouldn't install toilets shaped like butterflies, so why do you want to infantilize my need to not have my bike stolen?

I generally despise artsy or jokey bike racks—uh, it's like a mug, get it, har har—but at least these look easy to lock a bike to.

This is a reasonable question. I will lock my bike and both wheels with a U lock if the rack is in a highly visible, well-lit spot. Otherwise I'll bring it inside or go somewhere else. If I don't feel confident the bike would be secure—I get this feeling often—I'm not using that rack.

Anyone who puts a big wave rack next to a wall and pretends they're helping riders has a lot of cahoots.

A lot of people don't realize that Cadillac has already created 5000-pound motor vehicles that are not only fully autonomous but fully capable of feeling emotions and modeling the same misanthropic behaviors that human drivers often show. *his name was Jose Amaya