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Velominatus: G\'rilla

Order: Keepers Tour: Cobbled Classics 2012 Attendee

Location: Seattle, USA

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Festum Prophetae: The Impossible Hour

Update: You can watch the live stream (assuming it works from the velodrome) on the Velominati channel at USTREAM. When you log in, you’ll first see my little test video of my puppy eating grass. Please disregard me yelling at it. That never happened.I have always considered myself to have a good imagination, something I attribute half to my...

@G'rilla's posts:

  1. See if you can guess which ones are Frank’s and which ones are the track sprinter’s. »

  2. Slideshow: Fullscreen: Download: Powered by DM Albums™ »

  3. We’ll stream an interview when we’re back at Scaler911′s house in a bit. »

  4. We have lots of better camera footage of the whole event and will put it together… »

  5. Still unofficial, but we’re loking at 37,317m. »

  6. Unofficial tally 139 1/4 laps. He’s already talking about doing it next year. »

  7. Somewhere around 120 laps. »

  8. 50 minutes passed! »

  9. 45 minutes. »

  10. 40 minutes, still keeping 25.5 second laps. »

  11. Taking a water handoff (in motion, of course). »

  12. Roughly 68 laps at 30 minutes. »

  13. Restarting feed…phone must have gone to sleep. »

  14. I’m tired just watching this. 15 minutes in and consistent 24-25s laps. »

  15. Consistent 24.5s splits! »

  16. Starting! Stream should be running now. »

  17. Switching to 47×14. 14! »

  18. He’s adjusting the gearing…needs a bigger gear. Beautiful day. Other track racers are trying to talk him out of it. »

  19. Correction…starting in 20 minutes at about 3:20pm. »

  20. Starting the stream. Hopefully the battery lasts! Other track racers here say he’s crazy, and his position looks pro, like Olympian Bobby Lee. »

  21. 24°C, clear. Slightest breeze. »

  22. Gear choice: 47×16. Live stream starting soon. »

  23. Just arrived at the velodrome with Frank and Scaler911. Starting in an hour! »

  24. @PeakInTwoYears Yes, there will be a recording. It might take a few days to put that together, given the post-event beverages and such. »

On Rule #43: Notes for Bike Inspectors

This week’s Guest Article comes from our friend, @blacktoolpower (l) and our editor Drummond Moir (r). In anticipation of our book’s imminent release, these two donned their lab coats and headed out to the streets of London to assess the state of Rule Compliance in the city’s commuter crowd. Always remember: leave this kind of ins...

@G'rilla's posts:

  1. Evaluating commuters for rule violations? Cruel! I think they should have taken one copy of the book with them to hand out to the first bike that did not violate any rules. »

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