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On Looking Fantastic

Whenever I do anything, I try my best to project the confidence of Han Solo leaving the cantina after cooking Greedo…

9 years ago

The Pain of Adolescence

There are three subjects you should not bring up in new company: Politics, Saddle Bags, and Helmets. In my experience,…

9 years ago

The Nine Kit

Riding in bad weather is an incredible experience assuming you don't fall off and break your hip, or you don't get…

9 years ago

Look Pro: Poker Face

Cycling is all about energy. If you don't have it, you don't have it. It can be sucked out of you as…

9 years ago

Wet and Wild

I have been spoiled rotten this summer as I alluded to last week and was evidenced through the flatness of the…

9 years ago

On Rule #81: Crash Test Dummies

We don't like to talk about crashing. Talking about crashing before you crash feels a lot like tempting fate and talking…

9 years ago

Lock, Sock, and Two Smoking Barrels

It used to be that you could choose any color shoes you wanted, so long as they were black and any color socks,…

9 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…

9 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,…

9 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

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

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

Look Pro: Stay Still

"It's Francesco Moser, with his distinctive style, his still, aerodynamic position on the bicycle is an imposing sight of almost…

10 years ago

The Tightness of Being

Sprezzatura. Leave it to the Italians to dedicate a word to trying to Look Fantastic without looking like you're trying…

10 years ago

The Dangle

As surfing is to skateboarding and vice versa, so is motorcycling to cycling and... yes, ok we've mentioned this before, but it…

10 years ago

Five Face

Why is it that all the greatest riders look strangely happy when they are suffering the most? Hinault says he…

10 years ago

Anatomy Of A Photo: Looks Don’t Kill, Guns Do

Ya don't fuck with a Planckaert. Do so at your own peril. And that's any shorts length debate settled, too.

10 years ago

The Past and the Future

I'm struggling with how to open this conversation without sounding like what I'm assuming my grandparents did when I was…

10 years ago

The First Step

I've spent my adult life believing that Mario Cippolini was the first rider to soil the Rainbow Jersey with matching bibshorts.…

10 years ago

De Vlaamse Disco

I'm not a good dancer. I've come to this conclusion not through study but through ridicule and injury. Apparently it…

10 years ago