Velominati Super Prestige:
Giro D'Italia 2013
Archive for December, 2009

2009 Broken Chain Award: Douche of the Year

by Gianni / Dec 31 2009 / 18 posts

There are many strong contenders for this sought-after prize. First up, David Rebellin; he was nailed as a doper. Rebellin is a rider like Johan Museeuw, with a long list of impressive wins who finally ruins it all when he slips up and gets caught, all past results are in doubt. Young Schleck should have also won La Flèche Wallonne this year.  St...

2009 Cog Award: Ride of the Year

by frank / Dec 30 2009 / 5 posts

As the year comes to a close, I find myself thinking back to the most memorable moments of the 2009 professional racing season.  Overall, it was a pretty good season with some of my favorite races were won by my favorite riders; Liege was won in magnificent fashion by my boy Andy while a few weeks earlier, Tom Boonen had shown how the strongest ri...

Merry Christmas

by frank / Dec 25 2009 / 2 posts

Oh behalf of the Keepers, I would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.  Here’s to a great 2010; let the season begin!...

Rouleur, Issue 15

by frank / Dec 21 2009 / 12 posts

Issue 15 just arrived on my doorstop, and it is especially good and is going to take a good long time to work through all the way to the back cover. But I can tell you about the beginning, which was particularly captivating. It started with a great piece on Jeremy Hunt (written by Domestique/Journalist extraordinaire Michael Barry), then slid into...

Badass by Association: Winter Riding

by frank / Dec 12 2009 / 59 posts

To me, there is nothing cooler than riding in awful weather.  It automatically associates you with the Spring Classics, held in wet, wind, and rain, over the the worst roads you can imagine.  There is no image of cycling that I love more than of a tough Belgian Pro dressed in knickers, arm warmers, cycling cap perched beneath their helmet, grimac...

Haleakala Sufferfest 2007

by Gianni / Dec 3 2009 / 26 posts

Maui has the longest and highest continual climb in the world, sea level to 10,000’ in 36 miles with an average gradient of 6%. It’s a wonderful, underused climb because great as the road surface, temperature, and views are, Maui is well off the route for most cyclists. I did this ride 20 years ago on my trusty steel Bella, 42 x 23 gear wit...