La Vie Velominatus

Route Finding

I have memories of my life before Cycling, but as the years wear slowly on my mind their edges become…

9 years ago

The Color White

I saw the Black Crowes in concert some years ago, and as the band swung into their first number, Chris…

9 years ago

Youth

I've never been afraid of imitating my heroes, they always seemed like the best examples available and as a student of…

9 years ago

Support Your Local Framebuilder

I won't hold liking cats against you, but if you don't like dogs, you're dead to me. Some things aren't…

9 years ago

Merckxy Christmas and Coppi New Year!

Another year come and gone, another pile of New Year's resolutions out the door, done and dusted. It's a good thing…

9 years ago

On Rule #3: Role Modelling

What we do in life echoes in eternity. - Maximus, Gladiator We all make mistakes. We can only hope that…

9 years ago

Patience

It's been about a month since I've last been on the bike; I can't recall the last time I went…

9 years ago

Shifting Sands

One of my favorite stories in Cycling is of the 1989 World Championships. It was a very lumpy parcours, with…

9 years ago

Winter

As Cyclists, we are uniquely subjected to the changing of seasons. The green canopy of forest that we ride through…

9 years ago

Guest Article: The Longest Road

Let us thank @The Oracle for contributing this guest article. We haven't been putting up many guest articles so it's…

9 years ago

La Vie Velominatus: The Joyride

There are very few experiences as incredible as riding a bike; the wind in your face, the sensation of generating speed…

10 years ago

The Good Wolf

One evening, an elderly Cherokee brave told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, “my…

10 years ago

Waiting for the Man

You have three questions going through your mind: How far to go? How hard am I trying? Is the pace…

10 years ago

An Open Letter to Drivers

I imagine that unless you're a Cyclist, it is quite difficult to understand what it's like to ride a bicycle…

10 years ago

Ebb and Flow

As Tyler Farrar rode by in the other direction, we gave each other a subtle wave; not the wave between friends, but…

10 years ago

Lights On Legs

Cycling is made up of hundreds of minute details, forming a larger entity which is generally simplified and viewed as the intrinsically simple…

10 years ago

The Quitter

The truth is that I'd been thinking about quitting for the best part of forty-five minutes. Round and round I…

10 years ago

On Rule #28: The Case for Black Socks

[rule number=28/] Science has proven that people who wear crazy socks are smarter than those boring snooze factories who wear…

10 years ago

Festum Prophetae: Waiting for the Hour

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. - Mike Tyson The one thing everyone should always…

10 years ago

On Rule #93: The Throw Down

The human mind is designed to forget how much things suck. That is a fact. If women had the capacity to…

10 years ago