Defining Moments

Defining Moments: My First Kit

As children, none of us were given an allowance. Instead, we were taught from a young age that if we…

12 years ago

Velominati: Terrahist

PayPal has decided to classify Velominati as a "Terrorist Organization" because we accepted contributions last week from community members to…

12 years ago

La Vie Velominatus: Optimism

If I were a pessimist, or a realist for that matter, I wonder if I might have started any of…

12 years ago

La Bicyclette, Part II: Scars

We meticulously care for our bicycle, stopping only just short of pampering it. Through ages spend coveting, building, and riding…

12 years ago

Into The Tunnel

It requires a combination of factors to intersect. You need to have already spent loads of time on a bicycle. Enough…

12 years ago

Peter Van Petegem: A Lesson in Rule #9

Rule 9-Fair-weather riding is a luxury reserved for Sunday afternoons and wide boulevards. Those who ride in foul weather -…

12 years ago

Twistin Banged and Felled. And Got Back Up.

As a byproduct of brakes being strictly for ornamental purposes, cyclists are often forced to find alternative means of stopping…

12 years ago

La Vie Velominatus: Addiction

I feel it in my bones. I feel it in my breathing. I fixate on how much I feel it…

13 years ago

Keepers Tour 2012 Update, Part 3: Awesome, Kinda Weird, Awesome Again, and Solemn

With Keepers Tour: Cobbled Classics 2012 stitched up and in the history books, the challenge of documenting the trip became…

13 years ago

Keepers Tour 2012 Update, Part 2: The Lion Rides Today

With Keepers Tour: Cobbled Classics 2012 stitched up and in the history books, the challenge of documenting the trip became…

13 years ago

Keepers Tour 2012 Update, Part I: Roubaix & RVV

With Keepers Tour: Cobbled Classics 2012 stitched up and in the history books, the challenge of documenting the trip became…

13 years ago

Guest Article: The Most Beautiful Race in the World

Finally we can speak to this Paris-Roubaix mythology. The Keepers Tour group rode twenty-one sectors at something much slower than…

13 years ago

The 2011 Anti-V Moment of the Year: Paris Roubaix

While the The V Moment of the Year is the moment during the season when the sport demonstrated the most pure…

13 years ago

The 2011 V Moment of the Year: Paris Roubaix

The V Moment of the Year isn't an award so much as acknowledgment of the moment during the season when…

13 years ago

Guest Article: Me, My Bike, and Irene

This week Velominati is publishing a selection of guest contributions. It shouldn't be fun but it is, until it's not.…

13 years ago

Darkness

Yesterday, Seattle was dark for 15 hours 34 minutes and 37 seconds. Let us not count how much it was…

13 years ago

On Rule #5: Not Minding That It Hurts

In my favorite scene from Lawrence of Arabia, T.E. Lawrence, after lighting a colleague's cigarette, allows the match to burn down to his…

13 years ago

Friday Night Lights

Took my 2-yr-old son to the last of the Marymoor Velodrome summer series races tonight. He rode his tricycle up…

13 years ago

Who’s your Poppy?

You'd think that with such an historical event taking place in France overnight that the Australian newspapers would be a…

13 years ago

Here Stands a Man: Johan Van Summeren

Here stands a man. A quiet man. A hard working man. A Belgian man. A man from a life of grit,…

14 years ago