About
To Be Determined

Read on for information about To Be Determined, both the Journal and the team behind it. Have additional questions? Please get in touch!

To Be Determined Journal:

To Be Determined Team:

The To Be Determined Journal is an online collection of stories and images about cycling - everything from analysis, to travel diaries that traverse the world, to training advice, and reviews. We’re based in New York City and Colorado, but our adventures span the globe and cover all disciplines from gravel to criteriums.

The Journal is supported by a New York City based cycling team known as Team To Be Determined or Team TBD. Team TBD is currently comprised of more than thirty riders, several of whom hold key leadership roles in the local cycling community. For more on the team’s history as racers in New York City read our Origin Story.

Why ‘To Be Determined’?

Our identity as To Be Determined started as little more than a placeholder when our collection of friends and racers, many with a decade plus in the NYC cycling community, decided to plot a new course for our team. As we pondered the ethos of our team we realized that ‘To Be Determined’ wasn’t just a placeholder - it is the perfect articulation of why we ride bikes:

Determination - Be it on the final lap of an action packed crit, on those brutally cold and gray January training days that are part and parcel with racing bicycles in New York City, or while just trying to get to a campsite before the sun sets on a bikepacking adventure, To Be Determined is the expression of determination on two wheels.

Uncertainty - Somewhere along the way heart rate monitors, power meters, TSS and Zwift have become core to modern day cycling. We think it's time to reintroduce the unknown back into the sport. To return to cycling as an adventure, where the best rides are full of surprise and the destination is unknown. To Be Determined embodies the idea that when you swing your leg over the bike, where you go or how hard you pedal should be just that