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Velominati Super Prestige: Giro D’Italia 2013

Twiggo is dreaming of a Giro-Tour double. He has sent out mixed messages about his Tour ambitions. Will he use the Giro as the ultimate Tour preparation or will be burn all his matches in May and hope he can find another pack for July? He has abandoned his successful 2012 Tour run-up strategy of winning every stage race he entered the previous spri...

@Pedale.Forchetta's posts:

  1. @Ron in 1989 the Gavia stage was cancelled because of the snow… »

  2. @Gianni Scinto wasn’t happy with Di Luca in the team, he said clearly before the start that it was a decision made by  the main sponsor Vini Fantini (where Benetton has a stake). He’s a cretin indeed, he put in danger the whole team, the people working f… »

The Importance of Environment

While all evidence points to the contrary, the 20th century’s greatest twatwaffle LE Gunderson may have got something at least half right after all. Of course it’s about the bike, otherwise we’d be runners. But there are other factors that contribute to what makes us Cyclists which can often be overlooked completely. Not the cloth...

@Pedale.Forchetta's posts:

  1. Great, Brett. »

Descendeur

We close out the 6 Days of the Giro with our sixth and final installment.A body at rest, stays at rest. A body in motion, stays in motion. Things get a bit more ambiguous when it comes to a body on a bicycle tearing down a twisty mountain descent at speed, particularly in the rain. But it is here, on the boundary between clarity and ambiguity, wher...

@Pedale.Forchetta's posts:

  1. @frank ahah! It’s mine, it’s mine… http://www.flickr.com/photos/pedaleforchetta/8601969526/in/photostream/lightbox/ »

  2. She walks in beauty… But actually the photo in the title is mine, ah! »

  3. @frank after that corner… »

  4. »

Velominati Super Prestige: Giro d’Italia 2013, Stage 10

Day 5 of the Six Days of the Giro continues with an impromptu VSP event.Lets have a look at where we are in the 2013 Giro. Wiggins must have spent time training in Luxembourg because he’s been descending like a Schleck when things get dodgy before disappearing into the team van to have a cry about it. Hesjedal has put in some good moves and...

@Pedale.Forchetta's posts:

  1. @frank The photo of Dekker is one of my favourite too! He’s a cool guy. Thank you. »

  2. and the day after. »

  3. …and Ryder. »

  4. Thomas Danielson, photo by me »

Velominati Super Prestige: Giro D’Italia 2013

Twiggo is dreaming of a Giro-Tour double. He has sent out mixed messages about his Tour ambitions. Will he use the Giro as the ultimate Tour preparation or will be burn all his matches in May and hope he can find another pack for July? He has abandoned his successful 2012 Tour run-up strategy of winning every stage race he entered the previous spri...

@Pedale.Forchetta's posts:

  1. Ahah! Ryder Hesjedal. »

  2. Rayder Hejsedal the day he won the Giro. »

  3. I’ll follow to stages of the Giro, the Saltara time trial and the next day the one to Florence. I hope to be able to invent something good, there will be fantastic riders and fantastic people there to photograph… »

The Weight of a Moniker

Young riders rise through the ranks with such promise. We all know the story; the rider who borrows a bicycle and enters a local race and wins. He decides he might be good at going batshit fast on a bike. Mom and Dad buy him a klunker for his birthday and he takes out a license. He starts winning most races he enters locally and rises to the region...

@Pedale.Forchetta's posts:

  1. Then and still today he seemed to me a rider of other times, not at ease in the years in which he competed. And this has nothing to do with its resemblance to Fausto Coppi. »

Velominati Super Prestige: La Flèche Wallone 2013

We came tantalizingly close to adding a foray up the Mur de Huy during our excursion to Liege-Bastogne-Liege during this year’s Keepers Tour. But good sense and The Anti-V prevailed, as they are wont to do, and only two of us were left wanting a dig at the most notorious finishing climb in the Classics season.I write this, then, woefully igno...

@Pedale.Forchetta's posts:

  1. @Steampunk I think that finishing 5th in last year Vuelta while helping Rodriguez (3rd) made him progress in the team ranks. »

  2. @Steampunk No it wasn’t him, it was Giampaolo Caruso same team. Dani Moreno is a great rider though. »

Velominati Super Prestige: Paris-Roubaix 2013

It looks so easy on the television. Well, no, actually it looks pretty bloody hard. We think we have some understanding of how they suffer, how their bodies can take the continual beating. But we don’t really know. Not even by riding these abominations they call roads twice in the space of a few days can we understand the scale of the thing...

@Pedale.Forchetta's posts:

  1. Spotted the Velominati flag flying! »

Awesome Italian Guys: Pedale.Forchetta

The Velominati site has drawn out many interesting, talented people these last few years, from frame builders to custom V-bar plug makers. We all know @pedale.forchetta as a Moots riding, bidon cage disdaining Italian cyclist. What’s not to love already… and generous too? From the beginning he has been sharing his photos with us all:...

@Pedale.Forchetta's posts:

  1. Thank you very much, It’s an honor to receive such appreciation for my photos. Me, I’m a complete amateur with a huge passion for cycling and photography and with my job as an employee. My unaware photography mentors are: Robert Doisneau, Fedele Toscani… »

Velominati Super Prestige: Trofeo Alfredo Binda 2013

This is the second round of the Women’s World Cup, the first being the Ronde van Drenthe. Laveno Mombello to Cittiglio, 120 km of racing in Italy. It is a very worthy course and we know who will be wearing the number 1 on her jersey. Enough already, I like Ms Vos as much as the next person but someone has to work her over on the climbs and ri...

@Pedale.Forchetta's posts:

  1. Longo Borghini, a star is born. »

Sur la Plaque: Rule #9

As many of you know, there’s been a lot of synergy between BIGRINGRIDING and Velominati for several years now. Though BRR and Velominati have very different flavors, we work on a similar principle: foster passion for the sport through a mix of knowledge, history, and humor tempered with a healthy dose of irreverence, all while obviously makin...

@Pedale.Forchetta's posts:

  1. @frank ah! That’s looks beyond my possibilities, at the moment! »

  2. @Dinan thank you, I like this… not as the best but as a good one. Alessandro Proni, Vini Fantini – Selle Italia. »

  3. @scaler911 Thank you, I’ll find others here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pedaleforchetta/sets/72157633022136858/ And thank you all! »

  4. Meeting point at Ovada. Photo by me. »

Velominati Super Prestige: Milan-Sanremo 2013

Finally, we have Milan-Sanremo. I hope pedale.forcetta is ready to shoot some pictures, especially black and white because it will be cold and possibly wet. Throw in a little wind and a race of this distance will weed out the less hardy. Recently, but not too recently, this race would be won out of a decent size field sprint. And yet, besides Fabs...

@Pedale.Forchetta's posts:

  1. Tyler Farrar and Johan Van Summeren. Ovada, Milano Sanremo 2013. »

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