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Velominatus: CanuckChuck

Order: Level 1 Velominatus

Location: Maryland

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Born again roady. Can still be found off road. Hard core Rocky Mountain Bicycles fan.

@CanuckChuck's activity:

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...

@CanuckChuck's posts:

  1. Brilliant! »

The Bikes

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...

@CanuckChuck's posts:

  1. @xyxax Re: fitting service. I’d recommend a little family trip to the Nation’s capital during which dad can take a half day to visit Stu @ Parvilla Cycles. Stu is one of handful of Master Retul fitters in the country. He uses Retul’s wireless motion capt… »

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...

@CanuckChuck's posts:

  1. @frank Gawd did those commercials make watching the 2011 Giro painful. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6kGxUqf0vA »

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...

@CanuckChuck's posts:

  1. VSP PICKS: 1. TJ 2. Kreuziger 3. Rui Costa 4. Ryder 5. Spartacus »

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...

@CanuckChuck's posts:

  1. @ralph Well played sir, well played. »

  2. @frank Any chance of offering books singed by the authors? Or since this would likely require that the books travel around the world, perhaps at the very least, the one based in the continental USA? »

  3. @xyxax Priceless! This just made my day. »

  4. Congrats! Love the design. Can’t wait to get my hands on it. »

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...

@CanuckChuck's posts:

  1. Gotta do it… VSP PICKS (1st Rest Day Swaps): 1. Nibbles 2. Wiggo 3. Ryder 4. Scarponi 5. Cuddles »

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...

@CanuckChuck's posts:

  1. VSP PICKS: 1. Santambrogio 2. Nibbles 3. Scarponi 4. Pozzovivo 5. Cuddles »

Pink or Yellow?

We’re into day four of the Six Days of the Giro series, let’s talk trash. Yes the Tour de France started a few years before the Giro and has always been credited as The Tour to win. You win the Giro, you are a stud. Win the Tour and you are a stud for life. Why is that? Is the Tour longer, tougher, more murderous, more beautiful? In the 20...

@CanuckChuck's posts:

  1. Real men wear pink. »

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...

@CanuckChuck's posts:

  1. Life just makes more sense when you are Rule #33 compliant. »

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...

@CanuckChuck's posts:

  1. Perhaps Wiggo is not the strongest rider, but he does have the strongest team. VSP PICKS: 1. Wiggo 2. Nibbles 3. Ryder 4. Scarponi 5. Cuddles »

Cannibal Connecticut Cogal-2013

The Cannibal Velo Club Trustees met recently over frosty mugs to plan a joint Velominati-Cannibal Spring Cogal here in Connecticut.Proposed details: Continue reading...

@CanuckChuck's posts:

  1. The Cannibal Velo Club Trustees met recently over frosty mugs to plan a joint Velominati-Cannibal Spring Cogal here in Connecticut.

    Proposed details:

    • Date: Sunday May 19th (shrewdly missing both the Mother’s Day and Memorial Day weekends).
    • Accommodations: I’m sure that among the Cannibals, we can host most or all of the visiting Velominati/hoti. Bed & Breakfast venues are also available nearby. A Saturday Dinner/BBQ would be great for those who arrive the day before the ride.
    • Route: about 130km, about 5k climbing! That’s a lot of climbing FFS.  A mix of short, tough climbs, endless rollers, and scenic beauty in both rural and coastal areas.

    http://connect.garmin.com/course/2423364

    We can figure out other details, mid-ride chow, timing, etc. as the date nears. In the meantime, please share your thoughts and suggestions.

    Contact me about the Cannibal Connecticut Cogal May 19, 2013; Chuck Mueller- cgmueller2@gmail.com ; Cannibal VeloClub info: www.cannibal-veloclub.webs.com ; @CannibalVelo on Twitter ; ‘Canniabal Velo Club’ on Facebook.

    Event Details

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    Date/Time
    Date - May 19, 2013
    9:05 AM - 8:00 PM

    Location
    Simon's Marketplace

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Velominati Kit Redesign: Half Turbine, Half Hazard

Change creeps in slowly, it has a way of taking the seemingly immutable and eroding it over time. It’s inevitable; if the great canyons were carved from the solid rock of Mount Velomis by such a soft thing as water, then it should come as no surprise that the Velominati V-Kit would also change with time. As David St. Hubbins says, “Th...

@CanuckChuck's posts:

  1. Very nice work Frank. I’m assuming size chart, pricing, perhaps real life pics to follow shortly? And did I read right: about one month turn around? Fuck my tits, that’s impressive. »

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 &#...

@CanuckChuck's posts:

  1. V2.0 VSP PICKS: 1. Valverde 2. Gilbert 3. Nibbles 4. J Rod 5. Gerrans »

  2. VSP PICKS: 1. Gilbert 2. Valverde 3. J Rod 4. Nibbles 5. Froome »

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...

@CanuckChuck's posts:

  1. V 2.0 VSP PICKS: 1. Gilbert 2. Sagan 3. Valverde 4. Heano 5. Quintana »

  2. VSP PICKS: 1. Gilbert 2. Valverde 3. Gerrans 4. Nibbles 5. J Rod »

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...

@CanuckChuck's posts:

  1. VSP PICKS: 1. Vos 2. Ellen Van Dijk 3. Emma Johansson 4. Elisa Longo Borghini 5. Evelyn Stevens »

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...

@CanuckChuck's posts:

  1. Since I picked Sagan, he will not win. VSP PICKS: 1. Sagan 2. Gilbert 3. Gerrans 4. Valverde 5. J Rod »

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...

@CanuckChuck's posts:

  1. VSP PICKS: 1. Spartacus 2. Hushovd 3. Phinney 4. Chavanel 5. Stannard »

Velominati Super Prestige: Ronde van Vlaanderen Féminine 2013

Marianne Vos has never won this? She who wins everything all the time has never won this? Is it not hilly and tough enough? This seems like a tear in the time-space continuum. Someone is going to be wanting to add this to her palmarés. Weather sounds like a cold but dry day for racing. This is a big one, maybe worth two bumper stickers, so ponder...

@CanuckChuck's posts:

  1. VSP PICKS: 1. Vos 2. Bronzini 3. De Vries 4. Stevens 5. Johansson »

Velominati Super Prestige: Ronde van Vlaanderen 2013

Imagine a world without the little things we take for granted; a house without a roof, a pub with no beer, a Keepers Tour without any clothes. The last one is a reality for me at the moment, five days in and still no trace of where the hell between Wellington and Paris my bag (filled with V-Kit, shoes, helmet, everything) is. The other thing that h...

@CanuckChuck's posts:

  1. I needs me some points! Let’s go boys! VSP PICKS: 1. Sagan 2. Spartacus 3. Chavanel 4. Tomeke 5. Van Avermaet »

Velominati Super Prestige: Gent-Wevelgem 2013

Gent (Deinze)-Wevelgem, it starts with 130 km of cruising around Belgium and Northern France followed by a flurry of bergs and then a final 38 km of  flatter riding to the inevitable sprint finish. How hard can the climbing be if Super Mario got over them? Ask the riders from KT 2012, (the ones not in the following car) and they will tell you...

@CanuckChuck's posts:

  1. VSP PICKS: 1. Boonen 2. Cav 3. Boss Hog 4. Gilbert 5. Sagan »

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