Preface: This is Part Two of a Two Part Training Journal that Cait and Dawn are working on for their own zine. This was borrowed – Ok, fine… it was STOLEN – with their permission. I wanted to call it She Said/She Said, but Cait made fun of me. You should buy it when it comes out. Printed on real paper....

As one of the few online Bicycling and Economics Magazines out there, we feel a degree of responsibility to educate the common (ie: dumb) reader about the complicated and delicate ballet these two related topics play in our everyday lives. Yes, we may use scientific phrases that could be confusing, like “dirt poor”...

All summer long I’ve been seeing gaggles of brightly colored team kits on warm sunny days, riding tempo and laughing with one another. And then, around dusk, I’ll spot those same riders in the darkest corners of Forest Park with knobbies. Sprinting. Dismounting and remounting. Shouldering their dirty bikes up...