V-Announcements: Velominati Partner Coupons & Discounts

WE’VE BEEN BUYSSE

We interrupt our usual programming to announce a new and exciting program between Velominati and our Partners: Velominati Partner Coupons & Discounts.

DeFeet has been quietly supporting Velominati almost since our inception, using Rule #5 and Rule #9 to promote their line of products which fall squarely into the Flandrian Best range of cycling kit. As of last Summer, we officially partnered up to offer prizes to some VSP events and to provide the V-Socks.

We’re proud to announce that we’re opening the throttle a bit more and are now offering discounts at the DeFeet online store for the Velominati Community. For those Community Members who have risen above that of a Level 4 Velominatus, we are offering a coupon worth 10% off any order. Furthermore, anyone who has purchased a pair of V-Socks will earn a coupon for 20% off their orders. Rule #49 applies; don’t share your coupon with non-Velominati and please don’t abuse these promotions. I’d also like to point out that this is not a Rule #58 violation; DeFeet sells their product direct to consumers via their website.

Keep your eye on this space as we’ll be looking to expand this program with our other partners where it makes sense. In order to access your coupons, log in to your account (or register if you don’t already have an account); you can access your coupons from either the Dashboard or your Profile page.

Vive La Vie Velominatus.

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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scaler911 says:

Mar 8 2013 at 7:30 am

Hey, Where's my gravatar?
PeakInTwoYears says:

Mar 8 2013 at 7:51 am

@frank

@RedRanger

The idea of wearing extra layers during the summer her has always seemed like a bad idea. That's until I saw the UnD Lite. That looks very interesting. Does anyone know if they work?

Love my Un-D-Lite. The thing is that the undershirts are much better at wicking than spandex. You're wearing another layer, but its keeping you drier, rather than soaking up sweat like a swath of wet lycra. Yuck.

http://www.velominati.com/accessories-and-gear/reverence-defeet-un-d-shurt-and-un-d-lite/

Second the UnD Lite. I was a bit skeptical, too (a synthetic layer is a synthetic layer, right?), but started wearing it on the warmest days. Love it. The theory is that it wicks the sweat off the skin to an outer layer where it evaporates. And it actually feels like it works. I'm going to try an UnD Shurt this time, to replace the wicking running top with the sleeves cut off that I've been wearing under my Gabba jersey on cool damp days.
PeakInTwoYears says:

Mar 8 2013 at 7:55 am

@frank

I just showed this to my VMH, who is cursing about some coding problem she's banging away at across the breakfast table. She gave me one of those weak squinty smiles that say, "Why don't you lube your chamois and get the fuck out of here?"
frank says:

Mar 8 2013 at 8:13 am

@scaler911

Hey, Where's my gravatar?

I don't know, dude. You've still got your cog, so I'm guessing you deleted your picture from http://gravatar.com?
mcsqueak says:

Mar 8 2013 at 8:14 am

@Chris

It's not a trust thing but Her Majesties Customs and Excise has a nasty habit of demanding money from me whenever I get a package of goodies from overseas. Tends to write off any savings that I might have otherwise made. Bastards.

How else are they supposed to afford that new royal baby? God save the Queen's great-grandbaby!

@scaler911

Hey, Where's my gravatar?

I stole it.
itburns says:

Mar 8 2013 at 9:17 am

@frank

@Marcus

is "highly complex algorithm" another way of saying it counts how many posts you make?

You basically cracked it, except it looks at some trending activity as well. Which is where I've engineered most of the bugs.

Sadly, just like with riding, it appears you can backslide in ranking if not participating enough.
wiscot says:

Mar 8 2013 at 11:06 am

@mcsqueak

@Chris

It's not a trust thing but Her Majesties Customs and Excise has a nasty habit of demanding money from me whenever I get a package of goodies from overseas. Tends to write off any savings that I might have otherwise made. Bastards.

How else are they supposed to afford that new royal baby? God save the Queen's great-grandbaby!

@scaler911

Hey, Where's my gravatar?

I stole it.

Au contraire, Billy and Kate stole it for the new royal sprog. They're going to call it Bonnie Prince Scaler.
San Tonio says:

Mar 8 2013 at 3:26 pm

Chapeau to the Keepers!

This is a really great deal Thanks.

I've been looking at their products and I really might have to get some soon.
scaler911 says:

Mar 9 2013 at 9:30 am

@wiscot

@mcsqueak

@Chris

It's not a trust thing but Her Majesties Customs and Excise has a nasty habit of demanding money from me whenever I get a package of goodies from overseas. Tends to write off any savings that I might have otherwise made. Bastards.

How else are they supposed to afford that new royal baby? God save the Queen's great-grandbaby!

@scaler911

Hey, Where's my gravatar?

I stole it.

Au contraire, Billy and Kate stole it for the new royal sprog. They're going to call it Bonnie Prince Scaler.

I'm trying to figure out wether that's a compliment or a diss. I'm going with the latter. I'm Irish, so fuck the Pom's.
Dan_R says:

Mar 9 2013 at 11:08 am

@Chris

@RedRanger

@Chris maybe a fellow Velominati can help you out. ie have it shipped to them and they ship it to you. Might be worth it on a big enough order. I am more than willing to Help. Ask frank for my email addy If you want to give it a try.

Thanks for the offer, it's things like this that make this site so fucking awesome, but I will go through my friend in NY.

It's not a trust thing but Her Majesties Customs and Excise has a nasty habit of demanding money from me whenever I get a package of goodies from overseas. Tends to write off any savings that I might have otherwise made. Bastards.

Tell me about it!

@Frank Umm, for the last few days my status on the V has gone from Black to level 4 and back, depending which device I am using or if I am logging in from home or work. Just mentioning it, but is there something that can be done to fix it?