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V-Announcements: The Way of the Cycling Disciple

WE’VE BEEN BUYSSE PREPARING A BOOK

We interrupt the current programming for the following announcement:

The more clever among you might have noticed slight shiftings of the sands, a new scent on the breeze. Indeed, the Velominati Boardroom has been bristling with activity of late; the meetings longer and more regular, the pints downed in quicker succession, the views shouted in louder slurs. This can mean only one thing: Velominati is publishing a book.

It is our great pleasure to announce that Velominati has teamed up with Sceptre (subsidiary of Hodder & Stoughton Publishers in the UK) to publish a book framed within the context of The Rules. The book will contain a listing of all the Rules as they currently exist, supplemented with essays written in the spirit of La Vie Velominatus. The book’s subtitle has not yet been finalized but it is provisionally entitled, “The Rules: The Way of the Cycling Disciple”.

Drummond Moir, who has the distinguished challenge of being named our editor (I hope he knows how to herd cats), had the following to say about the book:

I’m so looking forward to this. Imagine a two-wheeled Fight Club, or a cycling version of Neil Strauss’s cult bestseller The Game, and you’re halfway there.

I’ve seen Fight Club, but have no idea what The Game is. For simplicity’s sake, I’ll assume its Awesome. We plan to finish the manuscript by the New Year, and the book will be published in June, 2013. More information may be found on BookTrade.

Thanks to each and every one of you for your suport, and for making Velominati a place worth visiting. VLVV.

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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the Engine says:

Oct 8 2012 at 3:39 am

I could now write an entire book on Rule #22...
Adrian says:

Oct 8 2012 at 4:01 am

Pulitzer Prize winner for sure......! Just hope the UCI doesn't sue you in Switzerland after it's published...!
Chris says:

Oct 8 2012 at 4:29 am

Awesome but an external editor? Surely we've enough in-house pedants to sort out the grammar and when it comes to the inclusion of borderline content, the conversation will probably go something like this:

@Drummond Moir "@frank, you can't say that, you'll get sued."

@frank "why not, it's never stopped us before? how about we include a picture of the assos girl to soften the blow?"
ChrisO says:

Oct 8 2012 at 5:38 am

Fantastic news... the perfect Velominati book IMHO would have:

1. Free sample sachet of Nipple Lube attached to every cover.

2. Scratch and sniff page of Flandrian mud.

3. A Cipograph image of the Assos girl - where it looks normal until you tilt it and her bib shorts come off.
Ron says:

Oct 8 2012 at 6:17 am

Good news, but I'm a little worried. "I'm so looking forward..." That's how teenage girls and middle aged women who watch Oprah talk. So, like, I'm just a bit nervous.
The Pressure says:

Oct 8 2012 at 6:33 am

Wow! Mozel,mozel! Maybe L.E. Gunderson can write the intro!
frank says:

Oct 8 2012 at 7:44 am

@RedRanger

Pretty amazing. How did this come up?

They asked us to write a proposal, we tricked them into thinking it was worth doing, and now we're staring down the business end of an intimidating deadline. That pretty much sums it up.

@Jeff in PetroMetro

Thank Merckx! It's about time. This place was worthy of a book two years ago. Congratulations, Keepers! I can't wait to read it.

Merckx, its good to see that smiling mug of yours, JiPM.

(BTW, when you move to Dallas - by the way, Seattle is lovely this time of year, consider that - just change your name to JiPM. Its what we all call you already, and then we don't have to deal with an identity crisis.
frank says:

Oct 8 2012 at 7:46 am

@Captain Poulidor

Keepers - excellent. Brett mentioned this to me a couple of years ago, and I do not know whether I am more delighted that it looks like it's finally going to happen, or that you have fucked around for an inordinate amount of time before committing.

That would have been the original concept we had to self-publish a book in a small format that fit in a jersey pocket. Turns out self-publishing is a massive pain in the ass. Better this way.
frank says:

Oct 8 2012 at 7:48 am

@Chris

Awesome but an external editor? Surely we've enough in-house pedants to sort out the grammar and when it comes to the inclusion of borderline content, the conversation will probably go something like this:

@Drummond Moir "@frank, you can't say that, you'll get sued."

@frank "why not, it's never stopped us before? how about we include a picture of the assos girl to soften the blow?"

The contract says we can't say anything obscene.

Keepers: Ah, Drummond? This is going to be a problem. This is going to be a short book if we can't be obscene.

Drummond: Strike that bit, shall we?

@Ron

Good news, but I'm a little worried. "I'm so looking forward..." That's how teenage girls and middle aged women who watch Oprah talk. So, like, I'm just a bit nervous.

Its OK. Drummond is English. They all talk like that over there.

@ChrisO +1!
blackpooltower says:

Oct 8 2012 at 8:03 am

@frank Can't wait to tell Drummond he's English (he's Scottish)