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Look Pro: Drink Properly

Riding a bicycle involves much more than just pushing the pedals around in a perfect sweep of muscular elegance while Looking Fantastic…

11 years ago

Convergence of the Two Fives

Physics tells us that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. The conservation law extend beyond the physical world and…

11 years ago

Book Release: Events and New Rules

The Rules lie at the beginning of The Path, not the end. In pursuit of La Vie Velominatus, we know…

11 years ago

In Search of Power

It's no secret that I'm prone to riding in the big ring as much as possible, mostly on account of…

11 years ago

Velominati Super Prestige: Paris-Roubaix 2014

It has been a brutal week for us Keepers, having decided not to hold a Keepers Tour this year. Watching…

11 years ago

Balance

I had always imagined that de Ronde van Vlaanderen must be hardest race in the world. The way I worked…

11 years ago

Velominati Super Prestige: VVomen’s Ronde van Vlaanderen 2014

Vlaanderen. Its no accident the Flemish word for Flanders starts with a V; there is nothing simple or easy about…

11 years ago

Gravity

Gravity is the most unavoidable force on Earth, with the possible exception of Stupidity. And like with Stupidity, you can…

11 years ago

The Reflective Bike of Authority

Everyone knows you need at least three road bikes - two if you're absolutely determined to make a point about…

11 years ago

The Roundness of Being

Evolution doesn't really seem to be part of the picture anymore, at least not where humans and our direct reports…

11 years ago

Velominati Super Prestige: Gent Wevelgem 2014

The Kemmelberg is a brute. In my opinion, its the hardest of the cobbled climbs in the Spring Classics; it…

11 years ago

Velominati Super Prestige: Milano Sanremo 2014

Het Volk (it will always be Het Volk to me) and now the Strade Bianche may well mark the sentimental…

11 years ago

The Janus of Suffering

I came strongly into the Fall, stronger than in other years thanks to a late-season objective to do well at…

11 years ago

The Rules: Coming to the US May 5

We recently lost our beloved Great Dane, Kirki, who we nicknamed Beene for reasons that elude logic. She was a…

11 years ago

Speed

I wasn't anywhere near old enough to hold a driver's license but my dad had already bought me a motorcycle.…

11 years ago

La Vie Velominatus: Rebirth

Wind is an asshole. I have no patience left for it. It has all of it been used up, gone, finished.…

11 years ago

Hunger

My favorite feeling is perhaps the empty hollowness of hunger. That statement, in itself, is a declaration of the privileged…

11 years ago

The Illusion of Transparency

The illusion of transparency is perhaps the most important tool the Velominatus has in their toolbox, apart from having some…

11 years ago

Post-Ride Recovery Ales

The most important moment in a man's life is the first time they have a beer. I place it on…

11 years ago

In Memoriam: Il Pirata, Ten Years Gone

I don't know if it's because I see something of myself in them or if it awakens some kind of…

11 years ago