La Vie Velominatus

Keepers Tour 2012 Update, Part 4: A Ronde Ride and Paris-Roubaix

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

13 years ago

Fatigue

Those things in life that are worth having are those things which are difficult to come by; perseverance is made…

13 years ago

Guest Article: Anti-Reverence? The Spin Bike.

Our balaclava wearing friend, @Oracle, submitted this winter reflection on the V. The article is a little ripe, but for…

13 years ago

La Vie Velominatus: Train Properly

There are few pleasures in life as great as to achieve a goal, to accomplish something that doesn't come easily.…

13 years ago

Guest Article: Amy’s Century…

One couldn't get much further from Shropshire, England than Adelaide, South Australia (in more ways than  just lat-long) and yet…

13 years ago

Portland Cogal v1.1 Post Ride Report

"My teeth are famous!" exclaimed Fränk while Mrs. Scaler was running around with her shiny new camera, documenting the day.…

13 years ago

La Vie Velominatus: The Toolkit

Even as a Pre-Cambrian Velominatus, the rusty wires in my brain must have made the connection between my machine's aesthetics and the…

13 years ago

Il Progetto: Nederaap CX-V

Building a frame has been, since childhood, a dream which always seemed a little bit out of reach. Aside from…

13 years ago

Ride Like a Girl: Marianne Vos

While it took seven Belgians to dominate the Men's Cyclocross World Championship race on Sunday, it only took a single…

13 years ago

Impromptu Mini-Cogal – Newcastle, Australia 2012

Riding bicycles brings people together. It forms bonds. Bonds that can last for years, lifetimes, transcending distance and even a…

13 years ago

La Vie Velominatus: Building Wheels

Self-awareness is a non-optional ingredient of leading a fulfilling life; while we should always push ourselves to explore new things, we should…

13 years ago

La Vie Velominatus: Romanticization

I'm often told I romanticize Cycling's past, that the days gone by weren't quite as rosy as I make them out to…

13 years ago

Guest Article: La Vie Velominatus-Transformation

The fear of crashing is there but we can't let override our pleasure in cycling. @mblume writes of this and…

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

Q1 2012 V-Kit Order

It hasn't always been this way, where we thoughtlessly disembogue 140 characters or less in messages sent into a medium…

13 years ago

La Vie Velominatus: The VVorkshop

If the road is the cathedral where we go to worship at the altar of Merckx then the workshop must…

13 years ago

On Rule #9: Love the Work

Fitness. The rhythm, the feeling of precision in our movement, the sensations of The Ride. The temptation of knowing we might in…

13 years ago

La Vie Velominatus: Life Gets in the Way

There's no doubt I live La Vie Velominatus. Sometimes I think I live it maybe a little too much, as…

13 years ago

La Vie Velominatus, Part VI: In Pursuit of N+1

Hardly a bike can pass through my gaze without invoking a visceral reaction; admiration for a well-manicured machine regardless of…

13 years ago