Watts Dixon, Author at Bikerumor

Bikerumor Editor’s Choice Awards 2021- Watts: Burn Out for What?

What to even say about 2021? Quite a bit, honestly, but I think it’s best summed up by three small anecdotes. ONE: On January 9th…

Written by Watts Dixon December 21, 2021

Review: Archer D1x – The electronic shifting you didn’t know you needed but honestly might

My question to Devin, co-founder of Archer Components, as we reclined in our camp chairs with beers and scanned the night sky for satellites and…

Written by Watts Dixon March 24, 2020

Review: Hustle REM Magnetic Pedal has a strangely appealing pull (and pedals well, too)

It’s problematic and embarrassing to admit… but I’m just as baffled by magnets as the Insane Clown Posse is. Though unlike everybody’s favorite “freethinking” flat-earth…

Written by Watts Dixon February 25, 2020

Review: Watts rides the Wattbike Atom indoor cycling trainer

Like most of you, I’ve watched the phenomenon of the committed indoor-bike with more than a little head-scratching. They’re everywhere. In Hulu commercials. Sponsored Facebook ads.…

Written by Watts Dixon December 20, 2019

Growing Roots: Undone at Ted King’s Rooted Vermont gravel race

Ted King leaned in and whispered, conspiratorially. “Don’t be obvious, but I’m pretty sure that’s Mike Powers.” I turned, as discreetly as I could, and…

Written by Watts Dixon November 01, 2019

Grinduro Scotland: Well Done

I looked down at the pedals in my hand. They’d seen better days, to be sure. A battered and chipped pair of old Shimano XTR.…

Written by Watts Dixon January 12, 2018

Watts’ Holiday Gift Guide for Clinically Depressed Romantics

I woke up last night drenched in sweat. True, I’d consumed more spicy lentils and injera bread than any human ever should in one sitting…

Written by Watts Dixon December 23, 2017

Watts’ Holiday Gift Ideas: A Guide for Feral Lovers (unabridged)

Question: If given the choice between going shopping for a Christmas Tree… or of having that naked picture of you circulated on the internet… (Yeah……

Written by Watts Dixon December 09, 2016

Gear and Loading in Las Vegas – Interbikepacking with Blackburn Design

“Motherfucker!” I barked, my frustration muffled by the bike light I was clutching between my teeth… trying desperately to shine some modicum of clarity on the…

Written by Watts Dixon October 07, 2016

Am I not Specialized? Dispatches from the Sequoia adventure bike launch

Editor’s Note: Yes, this is a long story, but it’s awesome. Even the Specialized folks liked it. *wipes nervous sweat from brow* But if you…

Written by Watts Dixon July 11, 2016

Holiday Gift Ideas: Watts’s (somewhat unrealistic) Guide (for nihilistic self-absorbed procrastinators)

Wait… what is today? F***!!! Already?! Well… Looks like everyone is (once again) getting hand drawn cards depicting the things that may or may not ever…

Written by Watts Dixon December 24, 2015

Revolting Cogs – Give the people what they want…. In lethal doses.

Beer fueled musings on shop life and the impending death of cycling culture as we know it. A hyperbolic tirade in approximately six hundred and…

Written by Watts Dixon December 06, 2013

Revolting Cogs – Dubbel Vagar

“DAMNIT!!!” I yelled, realizing that for the third time I’d failed to do the one thing I set out to accomplish by exiting the freeway. It wasn’t…

Written by Watts Dixon November 22, 2013

Revolting Cogs – You see… there was this Fondo thing.

My weekend was unraveling. And fair warning, your day might unravel after reading this. This is not what you’re used to reading here. And it’s…

Written by Watts Dixon November 08, 2013

Watts Dixon

Bikerumor Editor’s Choice Awards 2021- Watts: Burn Out for What?

Review: Archer D1x – The electronic shifting you didn’t know you needed but honestly might

Review: Hustle REM Magnetic Pedal has a strangely appealing pull (and pedals well, too)

Review: Watts rides the Wattbike Atom indoor cycling trainer

Growing Roots: Undone at Ted King’s Rooted Vermont gravel race

Grinduro Scotland: Well Done

Watts’ Holiday Gift Guide for Clinically Depressed Romantics

Watts’ Holiday Gift Ideas: A Guide for Feral Lovers (unabridged)

Gear and Loading in Las Vegas – Interbikepacking with Blackburn Design

Am I not Specialized? Dispatches from the Sequoia adventure bike launch

Holiday Gift Ideas: Watts’s (somewhat unrealistic) Guide (for nihilistic self-absorbed procrastinators)

Revolting Cogs – Give the people what they want…. In lethal doses.

Revolting Cogs – Dubbel Vagar

Revolting Cogs – You see… there was this Fondo thing.

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