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La Femme Ã Pois

“Becky? Yeah, its Jean-Paul with the Podium Girl Selection Committee. No, I don’t know how I landed this job either, and I’m not about to ask any questions because its a pretty cool job. I’m calling you about the auditions you attended for La Grande Boucle that’s coming up.

“Yes, the good news is you got the job. The bad news is you’ll be presenting the maillot Ã¡ pois.”

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frank

The founder of Velominati and curator of The Rules, Frank was born in the Dutch colonies of Minnesota. His boundless physical talents are carefully canceled out by his equally boundless enthusiasm for drinking. Coffee, beer, wine, if it’s in a container, he will enjoy it, a lot of it. He currently lives in Seattle. He loves riding in the rain and scheduling visits with the Man with the Hammer just to be reminded of the privilege it is to feel completely depleted. He holds down a technology job the description of which no-one really understands and his interests outside of Cycling and drinking are Cycling and drinking. As devoted aesthete, the only thing more important to him than riding a bike well is looking good doing it. Frank is co-author along with the other Keepers of the Cog of the popular book, The Rules, The Way of the Cycling Disciple and also writes a monthly column for the magazine, Cyclist. He is also currently working on the first follow-up to The Rules, tentatively entitled The Hardmen. Email him directly at rouleur@velominati.com.

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Oli says:

Jul 7 2012 at 7:09 pm

Ok. :-(
Buck Rogers says:

Jul 7 2012 at 7:11 pm

@Oli

Ok. :-(

It's been nice knowing you, Oli. See you when you get out of the penalty box.
RedRanger says:

Jul 7 2012 at 7:46 pm

@frank what's up with the raging?
DerHoggz says:

Jul 7 2012 at 8:08 pm

@frank

frank, how do you feel about memes?
Oli says:

Jul 7 2012 at 8:09 pm

@RedRanger It's all Frank Shleck's fault.
frank says:

Jul 7 2012 at 10:29 pm

@RedRanger

@frank what's up with the raging?

I can't ban him now, he pointed out a major boo-boo. Oh well. He banned himself once for 10 minutes, so I guess I can't top that.
RedRanger says:

Jul 7 2012 at 10:48 pm

@Oli

@RedRanger It's all Frank Shleck's fault.

that cuts to the quick. It was a gutsy move on Sir Strack's part but I almost gringed when I saw that in his top spot.

@frank

@RedRanger

@frank what's up with the raging?

I can't ban him now, he pointed out a major boo-boo. Oh well. He banned himself once for 10 minutes, so I guess I can't top that.

Cant even fathom how one does that. Btw I'm noticing some issues with the V-mobile but I'm gonna take my own advise before I bring it to you. Don't want to swamp you with stuff that can be fixed easy.
Oli says:

Jul 8 2012 at 5:19 am

@frank It was at least twelve minutes...
DerHoggz says:

Jul 8 2012 at 7:10 am

@Oli

Are we talking Camogate?
silkrider says:

Jul 8 2012 at 3:01 pm

@frank

.......
In spite of the cursing, we are the chosen ones.

....

i say this is just another reason *why* we are the chosen ones. it's real and raw, unapologetic, no false facade, it's who we are. we don't hide it and pretend we are above it, we ARE it. wiggins didn't censor himself, why should we? one of the things that drew me to the Velominati, in addition to all the obvious reasons of awesomeness, is people freely saying fuck, shit, or whatever word is necessary to convey the emotion. other sites are pussies, afraid of using the words that are most appropriate.