This read is one hell of a way to kick in the New Year. Got plans to do a bike tour? Don’t monetize it!

“In a race for your life from a belligerent madman, there is no worse getaway vehicle than a recumbent bicycle. Particularly on any sort of climb. At least that’s what Alan* and I discovered as we crept up a desolate stretch of Arizona highway, necks craning behind us to see if the knife-wielding drunkard was gaining any ground.”

Continue reading at Outside Online.