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Giro D'Italia 2013
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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...

@Daccordi Rider's posts:

  1. “technical, narrow descent” Beaker has already been on the phone to Brailsford demanding leadership at the TDF because he is fucked here. My smokey Betancur to continue clawing back time as the leaders stalemate. VSP PICKS: 1. Betancur 2. Nibbles 3. Cu… »

Self-Chosen: Il Pirata & Il Giro

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...

@Daccordi Rider's posts:

  1. @LA Dave Great work. Thanks. »

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...

@Daccordi Rider's posts:

  1. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Lolnfa52f4 Tandem Cycling. We have just done a promo video for our teams Tandem Project. Keiran Modra has long been a team member and our guys been his training partners. After the London Olympics he wanted to help young vis… »

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...

@Daccordi Rider's posts:

  1. And no one picking Pozzato? VSP PICKS: 1. Nibbles 2. Ryder 3. Beaker 4. Betancur 5. Cuddles »

  2. Hard to find a smokey but Betancur is my man. I may have missed the memo but last I knew Phinney was an average climber at best, he’s out. So Nibbles will go down hill so quick Beaker will be reduced to tears of fear and start tweeting about his Tour lea… »

  3. @Gianni Glad to be of service. It just all seems to have gone to his head really and being an Aussie we love seeing Poms get some comeuppance! »

  4. Moderated again! Don’t be disparaging about Beaker seems to be the lesson from today. »

  5. Shesh, moderated for hoping Beaker cops a hiding. How about if I just say he is a bit of a cunt? »

  6. I’m really hoping Beaker gets his arse kicked, the dummy spits will be epic. Need to see full teams before making a decision. »

Velominati Super Prestige: Giro d’Italia 2012

After a winter of long training rides that offered more in the way of numb extremities than it did in acute enjoyment, I have to say that the warming of the air and brightening of the skies have served to remind me that while I love riding in bad weather, I certainly don’t have anything against riding when its nice out.But dont think for...

@Daccordi Rider's posts:

  1. This is shaping up as much more interesting than actually watching Sky ride (stifles yawn). Brad does not win Giro, calls everyone a cunt for letting him down. The Mrs engage in handbags at 10 paces. Froome tells em all to get fucked, pulls out and Berti… »

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...

@Daccordi Rider's posts:

  1. @Rob »

  2. @Rob Hi Rob, I was lucky enough to ride the Stelvio in 2011. I’m a reasonable climber, my hire bike had a compact with a 27 on it and I was pretty happy to engage the 27 on a few bits of the climb but you could probably get away with a 25. It is such an a… »

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...

@Daccordi Rider's posts:

  1. @Sauterelle That’s some funny @Sauterelle That’s some funny shit right there. »

Cogal Report – TDU Cogadelaide 2013

While the Northern Hemisphere Velominati were busy arguing about who injected what in the old races they’d been using to distract themselves during their indoor torture sessions, down South a bunch of like minded strangers from the internet decided that coffee, hills, sunshine & beer seemed like a great excuse to meet up for a ride̷...

@Daccordi Rider's posts:

  1. @asyax If I can get my hands on it I will. I think it is sitting in a pile at the editors suite. We just did a little promo video on the tandem project for a fundraising night which I hope to get on utube soon and will put up a link to that. You could do … »

  2. Jens will hunt you down and go postal on your arse Mikael. »

  3. @Barracuda Just seeing who’s paying attention……… »

  4. Just thought I’d pop up a photo of the Tandem Team to provide a bit of context. »

  5. http://app.strava.com/activities/38071996 Here is the Strava of the Cogal. Really great ride with good people, we will certainly be holding another Adelaide Cogal at TDU time. »

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...

@Daccordi Rider's posts:

  1. @asyax While you’ve got the cobble Scott can you make the link to the Cogal report work? It’s farked at my end. »

  2. Meanwhile at the Bleeding Carrots training camp DS – Who wants to do Paris Roubaix this year? Riders – Don’t be fucking stupid. DS – Ok same as last year then, names in the hat? »

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...

@Daccordi Rider's posts:

  1. Sagan is awesome. Well done Spartacus! »

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...

@Daccordi Rider's posts:

  1. Heinrich gives the Peloton a shake down as HHHS suggested. He’s back in my good books. “Yeah, I’m fucking mad,” he toldCyclingnews. “I used so much energy just to get back to the front group… Fucking hell, it was a hard race. Especially, the whole ti… »

  2. He also needs to work out how to race anonymously until 20m before the finish line, throw off the cloak of invisibility and the pop a mono whilst beating the worlds best. No easy task. »

  3. I’m all for the wheelie, but the kid needs more practice. Robbie shows how it’s done. »

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...

@Daccordi Rider's posts:

  1. http://www.italymag.co.uk/italy-featured/milan-sanremo-race/milan-sanremo-when-fausto-coppi-stopped-coffee-way-victory This deserves an entry all of it’s own, don’t know what under, probably needs an new section for being too fucking cool. Faustoistic -… »

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