Categories: The HardmenVelominati Super Prestige

Velominati Super Prestige: Paris-Roubaix (Keeper Tip Hotline)

We are quickly arriving at what is, for any Velominatus, the end of the most awesomest week of the year. There have been emails and comments flying around within the community so we thought it would be fun to publicize our plan for honoring the Hardmen of the Cobbles this coming Sunday.

So, with that, we launch the first Keeper Tip Hotline. For those of you who are inclined to leave a comment, please do so and tell us what your plans are and who you are tipping for the podium. Top five places are scored; whoever has the highest cumulative score will get an Obey the Rules prize. Scoring simply runs in reverse order; 5 points for first, 1 point for 5th.

Update (13 April 2010): This competition has been renamed the Velominati Super Prestige. More information on this competition and current results can be found on the Velominati Super Prestige Page.

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.

Next Race Radio »

Previous « The Trench

View Comments

john says:

Apr 10 2010 at 11:35 am

@Josh
Was it a carbon steerer? I had heard it was aluminum and that seemed strange and a bad choice. Still, a weird part of your bike to break in any case.

OK, I'm getting no signs here.
1. Breschel-It's a 2 one 1, FC lets Breschel go, TB confused
2. Fabian-Spartacus drops cruel hammer on TB with 10K
3. Tommeke
4. Thor-He appears out of a dust cloud alone, hammering away
5. Van Summeren-who knows, maybe he has been resting up all Spring
6. Some Russian

I will be out of radio contact all morning lest someone blurt out the results. A semi-easy ride of 30 un-cobbled miles, gain some vertical meters, settle down to Versus HD mid-afternoon pleasurefest.
frank says:

Apr 10 2010 at 11:48 am

@Josh
OK. We are making I Heart Hincapie t-shirts like the I Heart Huckabees shirt. You heard it here first.
frank says:

Apr 10 2010 at 11:50 am

@john
It was aluminum fo' shizzle. How awkward to fall with no handlebars. I broke a handlebar mountainbiking once but I was climbing and I just snapped my sweet 90's Scott ATB aerobars because I'm such a powerhouse. Awkward none the less, but I was happy I was climbing.
Dan O says:

Apr 10 2010 at 12:38 pm

@frank

Yeah - first time out with the new steeds sometime this weekend. I'm coming off a 60+ hour work week (special project), so had no time to tweak the new ride at all (will swap saddle, bar and stem). Last night I rode home from work at 1:00 AM - crazy.

Thanks for programing reminder - I'm watching for sure.

I still have a pair of those '90s Scott ATB hanging in my garage. I was gonna eBay 'em. If you want to put 'em to actual use - they're yours for free.
Dan O says:

Apr 10 2010 at 12:39 pm

Make that '90s Scott ATB bars....I'm still a little loopy after this past week....
frank says:

Apr 10 2010 at 12:44 pm

@Rob
Interesting choices, mate. We seem to be in the minority with the Boonen tip. They shall weep.
frank says:

Apr 10 2010 at 12:45 pm

@Dan O
Ha!! Of COURSE you have those. Those things were rad...I don't think I would soil the Zip with 'em, but I'll see if I can think of a use for them anyhow...thanks for the offer.
brett says:

Apr 10 2010 at 12:58 pm

I gave Josh the bumsteer on the carbon steerer I'm afraid. But George is an innovator, and maybe he will up the ante and run one this weekend? It's a ready made excuse for him.
frank says:

Apr 10 2010 at 1:09 pm

@brett
Ha! Ready-made excuse! I've been exchangin emails with some of our readers predicting the excuses he'll be using. "The Sun got in my eyes and I missed the jump" or "The soy I had in my latte for breakfast made me a pussy" or "I had a head wind and everyone else had a tail wind". Thanks like that.
Rob says:

Apr 10 2010 at 8:01 pm

@frank
Frank, the Boon man is fustrated by last weeks results so of course he is going to pound the pave and waste the competition.

My other picks were done using the Big John method - I do not recomend it for the weak kneed...

And I would like to know where this George bashing is coming from?? I mean, who among us, had we even been able to become a pro would have results even close to his? He is a God on Olympus. OK, so he's not on the throne but at least he's touched it.

-I once picked up shit at the bottom of the mountain-

Hey Johno are those vertical meters on the bike?