Six Days Of The Worlds – Evanescent Riders of the 90s: Oscar Camenzind
The Swiss surely are making a name for themselves in the Worlds, especially these days with Spartacus taking his fourth TT title. Of course we’re…
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Six Days of the Worlds – Reverence: The Rainbow Jersey
The rainbow jersey
Six Days of the Worlds – Anatomy of a Photo: Paolo Shoots to Kill
I remember two principle things from the 2007 Men’s Elite Road Race. First, my favorite rider at the time, Danilo Di Luca, was barred from…
Six Days of the Worlds – Chambery, France 1989
Greg Lemond wins his second World Championship at the 1989 Worlds in Chambery, France
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Six Days Of The Worlds – Pharmacology
Americans, I think, generally feel they play just on the far side of the boundaries; that perhaps history doesn’t apply to us. We are quick…
Six Days Of The Worlds – Defining Moments: Oscar Freire 1999
Verona, Italy, 1999. You’re 259 kms into the World Championship Road Race, and you find yourself in a select group of nine riders. You look…
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Six Days Of… The Worlds
We love our niche categories here at Velominati. Titles such as Reverence, Evanescent Riders, Defining Moments and Anatomy Of A Photo give us the impetus…
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Il Progetto, Phase 1
Like a kid at Christmas, that’s how I felt today. There was the opening of some cool presents, one old, some new, all awesome. The…
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Folklore
In Memoriam: The Cycling Cap
We gather here today to pay our respects to one of the icons of our great sport, the cycling cap. The perfect union of form…
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The V is a Universal Truth
I’ve got some really cool students. Every year I instruct a course in winter camping, whereby a group of students and I go out into…
Universal Message: Metal Horns = Awesome!
It’s funny how malleable our definition of “local” becomes when emotion gets involved. Seattle is a fiercely independent town where “local” is meant to imply your immediate neighborhood and we struggle…
Reverence: Chamois Cream
Chamois cream, does anyone use it? I do and why.
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Domestique of the Week: Jose-Luis Arrieta
Yesterday, Cyclops posted a link to a story about the abandonment from the Vuelta and subsequent retirement from cycling of Jose-Luis Arrieta. Nice work Cyclops.…
Il Progetto, The Project
I’ve spent a lot of time of late looking at ‘vintage’ road bikes on the interwebs. It all started when thinking about what my ‘dream…
The Rhythm of the Stones
This picture makes me think, “There’s a right way to ride the cobbles, and a wrong way.” Those riders who have raced on the cobbles…
Reverence: Inhaling a Wasp
I have to admit, until BigRingRiding bestowed upon us the honor of gracing their site with our humble image, I had never heard the term “Inhaling…
Anatomy of a Photo: Pascal Lino 1990
As Frank mentioned in his response to the Evanescent Riders piece on Pascal Lino, there is a modicum of research that accompanies the relics of…
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Timing is Everything: Ole Ritter
For Danish cycling, before Bjarne Riis, there was Rolf Sørensen*. Before Rolf Sørensen, there was Ole Ritter. Ritter was a badass, a champion, rode Bianchis…
Evanescent riders of the 90s: Pascal Lino
Festina. The name alone instantly conjurs up the spectre of doping, and in particular the 1998 Tour de France, when soigneur Willy Voet was caught…
Monikers of the Giants
It only takes the most cursory glance through the Lexicon to realize that we have a special love for nicknames here at Velominati. I’m not…