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Velominatus: Adrian

Order: Winner of the Velominati Super Prestige Liege-Bastogne-Liege

Location: Malaysia

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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...

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  1. the Rules polizia……..great idea. Read the teaser last night,going to be a cracking read. Not sure i have ever seen mr Kelly smile though even in retirement. »

Velominati Super Prestige: Tour de Suisse 2013

The mighty VSP generator has been switched on once again. The mil-spec hydraulic fluid has been changed since the Giro. A new power take-off belt has also been installed. And the punch card reader has been refurbished.Broome and Berti are already riding the Critérium du Dauphiné. The top contenders prefer the Dauphiné for the decent recovery all...

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  1. VSP PICKS: 1. Tejay van garderen 2. Kreuziger 3. Kruijswijk 4. Dan Martin 5. Mollema »

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...

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  1. For me a 40.01 »

The Way of the Cycling Disciple: Publication & e-Book Sampler

Every once in a while, you stumble across a quote that changes your outlook on how you approach life. Of course, this requires that one does a good deal of “reading”, which is a problem for me, as reading anything that isn’t Cycling-related feels the same as doing “work”. I do the odd bit of it nevertheless, and in a r...

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  1. Kindle was looking pretty empty after just finishing a book about Merckx, but this will fill the void nicely. looks superb, can’t wait to read….. whos coming to the launch party……. lemond, Hamilton, Sir Twigglet or even Lance…..? by the way it’… »

Guest Article: Down with the YJA

Bicycles and automobiles- can’t we all just get along? @Kah writes about this universal (do aliens have this issue also?) problem of us co-existing with humans in cars. We all drive cars too and have cursed the occasional cyclists for some good reason. Cars are our greatest threat. We can crawl away from our own bicycle crashes, thanks very m...

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  1. @Gianni Whats so special about the cheese makers? »

  2. The meek shall inherit the earth…… or was it the Greek! »

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...

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  1. Crap, bloody time difference. Delgado’d »

Sur La Plaque: Rule #33

We’re heaping coals on the Giro frenzy that’s burning in all corners of the Cycling world by issuing the second installment of the monthly BigRingRiding Sur la Plaque series while at the same time kicking off the Six Days of the Giro series where we’ll post six articles on the subject of this, the best Grand Tour of the year. Y...

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  2. @frank I living in Asia, I am blessed by being able to get a regular cheap massage ( just avoid anything titled volcano massage….). I find in does make the massage a bit smoother but the difference is limited. I think it just looks good on a bike…….. »

  3. Doesn’t matter how hard I try I always miss a spot, usually at the bottom of hamstring »

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...

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  1. VSP PICKS: 1. Wiggins 2. Hesjedal 3. Nibali 4. Scarponi 5. Evans »

Velominati Super Prestige: Luik-Bastenaken-Luik 2013

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. @Dr C He’s not the only one who’s in shock , I’ve just seems my stunning new Belgium colour. Ongelooflijk! »

  2. Dan Martin, you absolute beauty…….I taped the race and hadn’t seen the results but when he pulled up next to Rodriguez I was screaming at the box. and when he dropped him in a show of class I almost gave birth. bloody brilliant. »

  3. VSP PICKS: 1. Dan Martin 2. froome 3. valverde 4. slagter 5. nibali »

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...

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  1. @Deakus I doubt it, my only podium place was last weekend, were I was second until the actual results came out and I was pitched of the stage and out of the top ten. Other than that have never even been close! »

  2. @Adrian Only two points seperating us in the VSP, Martin could be the difference »

  3. @Deakus If I had a clue I’d be dangerous, simply saw Martin placed well last year and he’s showing some form at the moment……. »

Velominati Super Prestige: La Flèche Wallone Féminine 2013

Last year we saw Evelyn Stevens out-last Marianne Vos at the top of the Mur de Huy. The take home message is don’t start one’s charge too early. Vos should know this finish, having won it four times already. It’s hard to know who is on form in the professional women field as the races are too far apart to infer much from the last...

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  1. haven’t got a scoobies VSP PICKS: 1. vos 2. borghini 3. johannson 4. armistead 5. van dijk »

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...

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  1. a bit of a punt VSP PICKS: 1. Martin 2. slagter 3. gilbert 4. valverde 5. sagan »

Velominati Super Prestige: Amstel Gold 2013

Yes it is a race named after a barely drinkable Dutch beer. I have enjoyed Amstel beer, brought to our table by a nice waitress, sitting outside in the Dutch spring. Atmosphere is everything. Do the Dutch brew awesome beer? I drank some good stuff in Amsterdam last spring but I’m pretty sure it was Belgian.Now we begin the Ardennes three race...

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  1. Ha ha ha, Damn it…….2nd place to out the top ten in one foul swoop….. Didn’t even have time to pinch the podium girls arse before being thrown off the stage like one of Hinault’s favorite supporters… »

  2. VSP PICKS: 1. sagan 2. Moser 3. gerrans 4. gilbert 5. van avermaet »

  3. VSP PICKS: 1. sagan 2. phinney 3. thomas 4. gilbert 5. van avermaet »

Cobbles, Carbon, Silk, and Dust

I hadn’t planned to ride them every day. In fact, I had planned to only ride them once and let other people ride them. But, genius that I am, I forgot my ceramic brake pads and had to source some new ones which was a maddeningly difficult process given that Europe observes something in the neighborhood of 363 holidays per year.I was more than...

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  1. Also no cobbles expert, but do notice that on the really rough sections of Tarmac round here, carbon rims do seem to bounce around more »

  2. @sean I didn’t know they made seat posts that long…. »

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...

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  1. Glad I didn’t pick Thomas »

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