Brett

Evanescent riders of the 90s: Franco Vona

One of the most enduring images in my mind of the Tour in the early 90s is of the monumental…

14 years ago

Evanescent riders of the 90s: Piotr Ugrumov

To describe Piotr Ugrumov's professional career as fleeting may be a tad on the unfair side. While he enjoyed a…

15 years ago

Reverence: Mavic tyre levers

Every mechanic has encountered a tyre/rim combination that has just been a real pain in the ass to work with.…

15 years ago

Velominati Super Prestige: Tour de Suisse

The inaugural Velominati Super Prestige makes an unscheduled stop this week at the Tour de Suisse.  Originally left off the VSP…

15 years ago

r-EPO Man

It's always a let down for a fan to realise his or her idol is not all that they were…

15 years ago

Evanescent riders of the 90s: Zenon Jaskula

While the talk of the week has been on the Fraud Landis Chronicles, whether he cheated (of course he did),…

15 years ago

Tino

The Kennett brothers have produced a series of great books on some of New Zealand's most successful, least successful, hardest,…

15 years ago

Franco Ballerini 1964-2010

Sad news today that two-time Paris-Roubaix winner Franco Ballerini was killed in a car rally accident.  A man who lived…

15 years ago

Cult of the Bean

The aroma. The taste. The ritual of the preparation, and the anticipation. It's more than just a drink. Coffee is…

15 years ago

Reverence: Tan lines

Tan lines are to the Velominatus what a drug overdose is to a rock star, or a Victoria Cross is…

15 years ago

Nokon No More

Followers of the Keepers may remember a while back that the Head Keeper, Frank, was having a dilemna about whether…

15 years ago

Can’t touch this…

When I went to bed last night, I thought about the World Road Race Championships, and whose name I would…

15 years ago

There’s a couple of ‘roos loose in the top paddock…

What's going on in Cadel's head?  Maybe the intense heat of Spain has melted his synapses, which were already near breaking…

15 years ago

Johnny T and The Lung

Things were always better in "the good old days". That's what my mate Johnny Klink always says, especially when we're…

15 years ago

Breaking Away

Whenever anybody asks me "what are your favourite films", when my answer is proffered I'm usually met with a blank stare…

15 years ago

Flandrian

Flandrian. While its real definition is a lot more complex than I'd ever imagined, it's a word that is bandied…

15 years ago

Maybe there is no ‘I’ in ‘team’, Lance…

...but there is a 'you' in 'c*nt'...

15 years ago

Next Year

The scorching sprint-dust and verbal detritus emanating from the Manx Mouth hasn't even settled on the Champs Elysees, and already…

15 years ago

Damned if you do…

It must be really getting to Cadel. The constant calls from the media and the fans (myself included) to "have…

15 years ago

Guilt by association

Let's get this straight; Yes, I'm an Aussie, not a Yank. Alas, it doesn't automatically mean I'm a huge fanboy…

15 years ago