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Archive for October, 2010

Reverence: Cinelli Forged Quill Stems

by Marko / Oct 31 2010 / 37 posts

Reading articles and viewing accompanying images here you’ll notice a common piece of equipment on a large number of the classic riders’ bikes.  The Cinelli forged quill stem.  Cinelli must have had one hell of a business model going in the 60′s, 70′s, and 80′s because it seems their stems and bars were the must have...

Anatomy of a Photo: Milan-San Remo 1983

by Gianni / Oct 29 2010 / 54 posts

It is said that this race is one of the easiest to finish but hardest to win. Really, it is the easiest to finish? I’ve driven from San Remo to Milan and it takes hours and hours, even at Italian highway speeds.  I’m amazed this race usually ends up in a field sprint, somehow big sprinters survive the capos at the end of this long cour...

Ride Report: Bar-o-Phelia Operationalized

by frank / Oct 27 2010 / 51 posts

As described in Bar-o-Phelia, my bar obsession festered and grew over a period of a few years, and then was spurred into action by a combination of me straight-lining it right past the zone psychologists refer to as “self-control”, and not having any adult supervisors present who would normally have sounded the “voice of reason&...

Velominati Challenge: Name that Climb

by frank / Oct 25 2010 / 33 posts

As cyclists, our legs bristle with anticipation at the sight of a hairpin turn.  Stitch a series of them together in close succession, and we lose the ability to speak in complete sentences.  Show us a road that resembles a goat path, and we start to wonder aloud in fragmented sentences what it might be like to send a bunch of racers up it.  Com...

Bar-O-Phelia

by frank / Oct 23 2010 / 100 posts

It starts with a casual observation. You hardly even noticed when it happened, but something shifted in your mind. A bit later the same observation is made again, this time in a slightly different context. It happens again and again and the observations layer atop one another like sheets of tracing paper that, when flattened together, form a comple...

Anatomy of a Photo: The Man with the Crystal Globes

by Joshua / Oct 21 2010 / 29 posts

As a cycling fan, I find that it is easy to neglect some of the physiological particularities of our sport.  In my mind, Faboo and Jens are giants—not merely Giants of the Road, but enormous men with enormous legs and broad shoulders, quite literally ready to carry the weight of the team.  Typically, we see cycling’s rouleurs only in comparis...

Defining Moments: Sprinteur to Rouleur

by frank / Oct 19 2010 / 92 posts

As we grow older, humility takes it’s chilling hold. The little nagging questions like, “Will this next activity kill me?” start to weigh heavier on our minds.  It’s not that these questions weren’t asked when we gripped our youth like a toddler grips his penis; it’s just that they didn’t mean as much to u...

Il Gruppo Progetto Elegentemente Rifinito

by Marko / Oct 19 2010 / 45 posts

So I just got back from a 30k shake-down ride and Il Gruppo Progetto is exactly what I expected.  You will get no Huangisms from me.  I’ll just say it’s a bomber steed with some classic touches that’s good old-skool fun to ride.  It’ll fit the rain bike need perfectly.  Thanks again for your input everybody. Slides...

Tricky Dickie: Shopping in the Five and Dime

by frank / Oct 18 2010 / 28 posts

We recently trod into territory we simultaneously avoid and willingly dive headlong into: doping and the intrinsic hypocrisy therein. While on the subject I figured the timing could never be worse to talk about one of my favorite riders: Tricky Dickie, the ponciest lad in the peloton.On the bike, he was a simple man; there was never anything sop...

Guest Article: Le Metier

by The Keepers / Oct 17 2010 / 39 posts

The Velominati are proud to present the following guest article by our community member Steampunk, who splits his time between peppering the site with his insight and humor and riding in the sacred Velominati colors. Michael Barry is one of the great domestiques of the peloton; loyal, hardworking, a hardman, a true cycling aesthete – and an e...
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