Ask Uncle Dave

You'd think it would be very difficult to keep a high profile bike - like the new Norco Shore - under wraps in this bike-crazed town...

"Generally speaking there will always be some small company there waiting for the big boys to drop the ball..."

Dave reflects upon his first ride on real trails since the beginning of the pandemic...

Uncle Dave engages Noel Buckley of Knolly Bikes to answer a question about frame alignment...

"I would dry heave and weep and feel sorry for myself and wonder if it was all worth it. It felt like the cure was worse than the disease..."

"Honestly, I think my riding of bicycles contributes more to my ecological footprint than anything else in my life..."

"Like a frat boy hitting the ground after his first kegger. It was kind of shocking..."

"It was just easier to leave my riding gear in the back seat of my truck? Who is going to steal that shit, anyways?"

"I told him that he could try to find some new springs for his fork, but that there was a good chance he might not be able to..."

Uncle Dave tackles OEM tires and digs into the decision making product managers face when they spec your bike...

Uncle Dave goes down a nerdy rabbit hole and tackles bike geometry head on. Not so simple, is it?

Uncle Dave finds the world conspiring to unsettle his tenuous grip on reality, time and space...

Should we believe companies trying to convince us their helmets protect better than the rest?

Does the presence of zombies change your requirements? Maybe a chainsaw holder...

"As our sport has grown and our influence has gained, our attitude has changed. Somewhere along the line we've moved from a place of privilege to a place of entitlement..."

The joys of having a signficant other who wants to learn to ride with you isn't always fun for all…

"Eventually, I took my son and left because I didn’t want him to learn such awful technique..."

"And somehow, within all of that word salad of saving the world, you have to find some kind of balance ..."

"It all comes apart six hours into your roadtrip when you can't agree on which shitty restaurant to eat at..."

A trip to Croatia was too much to pass up - and so Dave had fun with electricity - and this is your cue to start yelling....

Uncle Dave gets wined, dined and thrown into the Adriatic - is it all so he'll say nice things about new products from Specialized?

Dave has been stockpiling gear just so he could write about it for his faithful audience - Shoes from 5:10 and Specialized, gloves from Gore and Specialized and a helmet from...

Like a bright red, poisonous tree frog covered in spines, these crazy, complicated, expensive bike parts scream, "do not touch and get the hell out of my jungle!"

"I seemed to have no answers to their questions and no real ideas as to what I was looking for, and just kept saying 'you know...a bike?'"