Velominati Super Prestige: Men’s Elite Road Race 2013

The world championship road race stands out among all other one-day races as the one where the winner is awarded…

11 years ago

Velominati Super Prestige: Women’s Elite Road Race 2013

Where: Montecatini Terme to Firenze, Italy When: September 28 How: 140 km including 5 climbing laps in Firenze. It will most…

11 years ago

Full Circle: The ‘Evolution’ of Mountain Biking

Think back to the early days of mountain biking. A bunch of friends, getting to the top of the hill…

11 years ago

La Vie Velominatus: Cable Obsession

I'm fluent in three languages: Dutch, English, and Hyperbole. The third is an acquired talent developed by creative and narcissistic…

11 years ago

Velominati Super Prestige: Elite Women’s World Championship ITT 2013

There is something about a time trial that lets you go spelunking in undiscovered caverns of The Cave. Contort your…

11 years ago

Theatres Of Dreams

The home ground of Manchester United Football Club, Old Trafford, is colloquially known around the world as the Theatre of…

11 years ago

Dogs I Have Known

Flies and dogs, two things that we don't need on a climb. I had descended down this street many times,…

11 years ago

Allez la Douze: Dropping Flies

An ancient Velominati legend states that when the The Prophet created the common fly, he gave it a maximum air…

11 years ago

Anatomy Of A Photo: Ferdi Brings The Truth

They don't call it the race of truth for nothing, and Ferdi ain't no liar. There's no hiding when your…

11 years ago

Book Review: Domestique by Charly Wegelius

Who is Charly Wegelius? His name would float to the surface in races usually when the road went up. The…

11 years ago

The Cave

No words survive here, only echoes. Echoes of our hopes, of our plans, of our failures. What we thought we…

11 years ago

Cogal Report: Bay Area Cogal 2013

Sometime this spring I got an email from @xyverz suggesting a second annual bay area cogal, along with some route…

11 years ago

Guest Article: The Prodigal RB-1

Pineapple Bob? @cyclops goes deep with this reference. Pineapple Bob was a mystical figure in American cycling. He was not…

11 years ago

Jan VS Lars

It's funny what goes through your head at 3am when you're woken by a cat. Especially if that cat's name…

11 years ago

The Entanglements of Rule #12

It is so deeply entangled at this point, I can no longer tell the threads from one another. The strands…

11 years ago

The Unexpected

Gianni really took it in the shorts after trying to sneak his way along with a stealth EPMS. Like an…

11 years ago

Velominati Super Prestige: Grand Prix de Plouay-Bretagne 2013

Brittany is the kind of area that produces strong-minded and strong-bodied people; I'm looking at you, Jacques Anquetil and Bernard Hinault.…

11 years ago

Rule #29: When is an EPMS not an EPMS?

Saddle bags have no place on a road bike, and are only acceptable on mountain bikes in extreme cases. Saddle…

11 years ago

Reverent: Ravito

There are many revered places in Cycling, places that are instantly recognisable, places that command their own special page in…

11 years ago

Cogal Report: The Seattle Summer Cogal 2013: The V-to-V Stage Cogal

Yes, we got piss drunk after the 2012 Seattle Summer Cogal and dreamed up the V-to-V Stage Cogal: epic riding,…

11 years ago