Understanding Cycling Through Practice: Everything is Connected
Tekné is an ancient Greek concept describing knowledge gained through making, doing, and experience.
Tekne Cycling is where I document and share what I learn through riding, experimentation, field testing, product evaluation, and writing. Whether exploring remote routes, testing equipment, developing products through Matter Lab, or analyzing complex cycling systems, the goal is the same: to better understand the relationships between riders, equipment, behaviour, and environment, and share learnings with the cycling community and industry.
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Appeal to the stone
Smooth surfaces, in the form of narratives and infrastructure, gloss the past and physical spaces that constitute each of our realities.
MATTER: UniTerra’s Nomad Manual Espresso Machine
Curiosity drives this orientation to coffee. Brewing and extraction brings art and craft to the fore, into our hands, and turns the process of experimentation and discovery into a daily ritual.
PODCAST of the WEEK #2
“The Stache is outstanding because Payson McElveen’s interesting confluence of life history, vocation, intellect and curiosity propel long-form (often 2hr +), in-depth conversations with fascinating figures from within and without cycling that transcend sport.”
Understanding the Cyborg Cyclist
In cycling, technologies that quantify performance have supplanted keen attention to sensations, yielding what has been referred to as a ‘robotic’ riding and racing. Honestly, it makes me cringe a bit whenever I hear riders say: ‘The numbers were good.’
PODCAST of the WEEK #1
“I’m really impressed by the depth this pod dips into with respect to the mind-body connection. Love it! And none of this is Whoop strap-specific, the device is barely even mentioned. This conversation is very much about understanding ourselves better.”
The Art of the Possible.
I believe life is for living. It has taken me years to manifest conscious thoughts about gratitude on a regular basis, and for me, gratitude is always associated with the recognition that I’m fortunate to have a healthy, strong body, or rather, to be in this moment, a healthy, strong person. Now. Later? I don’t and can’t know. All I can know is whether I’m capable now.
MATTER: 650b Woven Precision Handbuilts Carbon Wheels and Rene Herse Tires
What’s the scoop with 650b tires and wheels?
MATTER of FACT: Making Sense of Tubeless and Tubular Tires for Cyclocross
“I have one bike, three sets of wheels. How do you pick the tire set up? Tubeless with drys carbon tubulars with muds, aluminum tubulars with mixed?”
Holiday Gift Guide
“When we gift we are in a position to jump through hoops to create something special, and it’s from this perspective that I’ve created this gift guide.”
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3 days, 3 riders, and a loop around Parc Mont Tremblant connecting Rouge Matawin Wildlife Reserve and ZEC des Nymphes. Here’s what we learned about surface conditions, campsite availability, water filtration, and wheel setups.