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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...

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  1. @strathlubnaig Again, FFS. Wiggins would have likely I won’t Trentino if his shit E-lectonic shifting hadn’t stopped working. Of course we had to tip shit on him because he “wasn’t being cool” throwing his expensive bike about. Getting heartily sick… »

  2. @cantona geez. We’re such bitches on the interwebs. The weather has been total shit. It’s a bit rich to be calling Wiggs out for being soft, especially considering he would have won the TT if he hadn’t flatted. »

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...

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  1. @The Grande Fondue Holy Fucking fuckcakes! That makes descending on a bike look positively tame! »

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...

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  1. @Mikael Liddy Don’t dream it’s over. »

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...

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  1. My little poni in for Ryder VSP PICKS: 1. Pozzovivo 2. Nibbles 3. Cuddles 4. Wiggins 5. Scarponi »

  2. VSP PICKS: 1. Pozzovivo 2. Nibbles 3. Cuddles 4. Wiggins 5. Hesjedal »

The Bike. It is the central tool in pursuit of our craft. A Velominatus meticulously maintains their bicycles and adorns them with the essential, yet minimal, accoutrement. The Rules specify the principles of good taste in configuration and setup of our machines, but within those principles lies almost infinite room for personal taste.It seems in s...

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  1. *Columbus* »

  2. @zeitzmar Well done! Good find with the Coulmbus fork. Enjoy the bejesus out of it. »

We continue our Six Days of the Giro series with a look at the troubled bond between Marco Pantani and the Giro.Some were meant to be tormented, as though it were preordained that their brilliance should be balanced with fatal flaws. These are tortured souls, whose dramatic highs are equalled only by the devastating depths of their lows. Continu...

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  1. Bah, I suck at the internet. »

  2. @ChrisO You mean like this? »

We are the Keepers of the Cog.  In so being, we also maintain the sacred text wherein lie the simple truths of cycling etiquette known as The Rules. It is in our trust to maintain and endorse this list.See also The Prophet’s Prayer. Continue reading...

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  1. @Mikael Liddy Mikael:  Congratulations. It’s a beautiful thing, life. »

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...

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  1. Yay, Good Cadel. Fingers crossed that he keeps it going. »

The Bike. It is the central tool in pursuit of our craft. A Velominatus meticulously maintains their bicycles and adorns them with the essential, yet minimal, accoutrement. The Rules specify the principles of good taste in configuration and setup of our machines, but within those principles lies almost infinite room for personal taste.It seems in s...

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  1. @thebaron Nah, it only counts if it’s a race bike. »

  2. @frank Don’t forget track bike as well. »

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...

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  1. @Mikael Liddy Hey, been away a bit but I wanted to say congratulations! Life will never be the same, but in the best possible way! »

The Bike. It is the central tool in pursuit of our craft. A Velominatus meticulously maintains their bicycles and adorns them with the essential, yet minimal, accoutrement. The Rules specify the principles of good taste in configuration and setup of our machines, but within those principles lies almost infinite room for personal taste.It seems in s...

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  1. @Beers I’ve had some experience with Gatorskins when they first came out.  In the preceeding 5 years before I got them, commuting every day, I had perhaps one flat on a crappy set of Vittorias.  After putting on the Gatorskins, I had 4 flats in 3 weeks… »

  2. @Dan_R 15.15kgs is pretty heavy. Didn’t monsieur Trudeau give you the metric system in Alberta? »

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...

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  1. VSP PICKS: 1. Nibbles 2. Wiggins 3. Hesjedal 4. Cuddles 5. Scarponi »

The Bike. It is the central tool in pursuit of our craft. A Velominatus meticulously maintains their bicycles and adorns them with the essential, yet minimal, accoutrement. The Rules specify the principles of good taste in configuration and setup of our machines, but within those principles lies almost infinite room for personal taste.It seems in s...

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  1. @pistard SL was top of the line Columbus tubing in the mid 80′s. SLX came out maybe 87-88. From recollection SL was slightly lighter than SLX as it was merely butted. SLX had a bit more material in the form of spiral ribs in the first 10 or so cms of th… »

  2. @anotherdownunder My 2c. Get a bike as close as possible to the geometry of your road bike if you think you have the fit dialled. FWIW, My CX bike has 5mm less length in the top tube and I use the same length stem for both road and CX.  The only other… »

  3. @Ron Oh, and re the lizard skins tape, I had some on my cross bike last year. Lovely feel and great grip, but it lasted precisely one 70km muddy CX/Fondo race before the outer surface wore through to the foam inside. »

  4. @Ron Check the derailleur hanger alignment. »

There are always at least two ways to accomplish any task: properly and improperly. Drinking beer from a glass, not the bottle; carrying a full umbrella instead of a miniature fold-up; stirring your gin martinis, not shaking them; wearing french cuffs with a suit, not button cuffs. The Velominatus, of course, is drawn towards doing things Properly,...

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  1. @strathlubnaig I’m quietly flummoxed as to why we’re judging someone based on thier reaction to the fact that they’ve just lost a race that they were reasonably certain to win.  I sure as fuck wouldn’t be daintily placing it against the wall. It’s raci… »

There is something to love about a race that makes a deviation to its route for the simple joy of sending a fleet of professional riders up a fiendishly steep and narrow ramp. The Cote du Stockeu offers zero benefit to the route from a logistical standpoint – in fact, all it does is complicate things. On the way down from the Cote de Wanne &#...

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  1. VSP PICKS: 1. Giblets 2. Gerro 3. Valv Piti 4. Purito 5. Martin »

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...

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  1. Gerro out Alba in VSP PICKS: 1. Gilbert 2. Albasini 3. Porte 4. Valverde 5. Kwitkowski »