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Velominati Super Prestige: Tour de France 2015

Cobblestones make the race, I'm not ruining any fantasies telling you that. Wet cobblestones, well, those make a legend. Nibbles…

10 years ago

Weight Weenies

My bike weighs about 6 kilos. It is no waify little thing either, with it having a 61cm frame and and three…

10 years ago

Anatomy of a Photo: Gatorade

If Gatorade had any marketing sense whatsoever, they would have plastered photos of this pair all over every billboard in…

10 years ago

Reverence: Kuwahara Hirame Pump Head

I pump my tires up every single day, and every day it is the only part of Cycling I don't…

10 years ago

La Vie Velominatus: Standing Grace

We are bipedal creatures. Fact. Bipedal locomotion sucks. Also a fact. This makes being a human somewhat challenging in the sense…

10 years ago

Shadow Boxing

In the 1989 Tour de France, Laurent Fignon was on the rivet. Close to collapse. But his Directeur Sportif noticed that…

10 years ago

Look Pro: Baller

Whenever something tries to be something it isn't, you wind up getting into trouble. Those Cutlass Cruisers in the 70's…

10 years ago

The Book and the Cover

I rode with a rider I know from work a few weeks ago. The first time we sat in a meeting together,…

10 years ago

Defining Moments: Dust Caps

I genuinely miss the eighties. Funny Bikes, which I say without thinking this though. Then again, time trial bikes today are…

10 years ago

The Goldilocks Principle: Deflategate

The Rider is the best book ever written about Cycling. I don't mean that figuratively, I literally mean that literally. I…

10 years ago

Short But Sweet

My lungs feel my favorite way my lungs can feel. Every breath I take tells me the whereabouts of each alveolus. They feel…

10 years ago

La Vie Velominatus: Gun Envy

Three things define a Cyclist: their ability to crush fools, their ability to Look Fantastic, and the Magnificence of their Guns. If…

10 years ago

Velominati Super Prestige: Giro d’Italia 2015

This is the most exciting thing that's happened in Cycling since April. Yes, that's a full two weeks with nothing…

10 years ago

La Vie Velominatus: The Holy Land

No pavé is smooth, and to ride them well the rider must enter them à bloc and keep pushing until…

10 years ago

Velominati Super Prestige: Liege-Bastogne-Liege 2015

Liege is an interesting animal; whereas the Cobbled Classics are the sole domain of the specialists known as de Klassiekers…

10 years ago

Something from Nothing

If the only kind of wind they have in Belgium is a headwind, then the only kind of flats they have…

10 years ago

Velominati Super Prestige: La Fleche Wallonne 2015

Who doesn't like a nice, steep, uphill finish after getting your head kicked in for six hours? Not me, assuming…

10 years ago

On Rule #3: The Apocalypse

[rule number=3/] With The Rules being officially published in three languages (English English, American English, and soon Dutch) and now also…

10 years ago

Anatomy of a Photo: Bike Love

I got new wheels last week and got them mounted with tires by the weekend. Then @Haldy had to help me…

10 years ago

Velominati Super Prestige: Gent Wevelgem 2015

Oh boy! Oh boy! Oh boy oh boy oh boy! Oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh…

10 years ago