In Flanders Fields

You don't have to be in Flanders very long before you start to breathe in the history of the area.…

13 years ago

Guest Article: Oude Kwaremont Beer

Longtime Velominati Jarvis is camping down the road from us in Kemmel. He came by last night to visit and…

13 years ago

Velominati Super Prestige: Ronde van Vlaanderen 2012

The Keepers and Rigid rolled into a region in France called Flandres which, without doing any further research into the…

13 years ago

Velominati Super Prestige: Women’s Ronde van Vlaanderen 2012

The Velominati Super-Prestige continues with our second Women's event of 2012, the Women's Ronde van Vlaanderen. This one is made…

13 years ago

Waiting for My Bike

Points of complication are usually both surprising and completely predictable. Take, for instance, international travel. We don't really have trouble cramming a…

13 years ago

In Memoriam: The Tricolore

It was a simple time. Team kit was understated, with black shorts and a few colored panels on the jersey.…

13 years ago

Cobbles, Bergs, Beer, and Legends. Putting the V Back in Vlaanderen.

It has been a busy couple of weeks in the Velominati Boardroom as we've been scrambling to finalize a few…

13 years ago

Guest Article: My Journey from Milano to Sanremo

While the rest of us where bickering over the style in which the finale of one of the most exciting…

13 years ago

Velominati Super Prestige: Gent-Wevelgem 2012

Gent conjures up images of the quintessential Flemish city. Age-old medieval architecture rising from the river's edge is classically Belgian.…

13 years ago

Tubulars: Art, Science, and Ritual

As Keepers Tour crossed from dream to reality and routes over the cobblestones of Northern Europe were sketched out, with…

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

CA Cogal Report: It Takes Two to Cogal

@nate's take: When @sgt announced the California Cogal I knew a road trip was in my future. Unable to make…

13 years ago

Velominati Super Prestige: Milano San-Remo 2012

The Poggio. It's probably one of the most famous easy climbs in the world; going through old cycling photographs, I…

13 years ago

Ride Like a Girl: Meg Fisher

This is Meg. Keeper Jim and I found Meg spinning loops around Mercer Island, big-ringing the rollers in the pouring rain. Meg…

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

Keepers Tour Update: Contact Point Supplier: fi’zi:k

It's crazy to me how fast two months from peaking goes by. At Christmas time I remember thinking how distant…

13 years ago

Asheville, North Carolina Mini-Cogal

Asheville, North Carolina holds the distinction of being the only town in the world wherein I came across an elderly…

13 years ago

Velominati Super Prestige: Paris-Nice 2012

It's right around this time of year when the little voice in my head that spurs me on in cold,…

13 years ago

Velominati Super Prestige: Strade Bianche 2012

The Monte Paschi Strade Bianchi is happening this Saturday and it is such an interesting race we are putting it…

13 years ago