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Velominatus: Gervais

Order: Level 3 Velominatus

Location: St-Hyacinthe,Quebec,Canada

@Gervais's activity:

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...

@Gervais's posts:

  1. VSP PICKS: 1. hesjedal 2. evans 3. nibali 4. scarponi 5. uran »

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...

@Gervais's posts:

  1. wiggins will crash VSP PICKS: 1. hesjedal 2. evans 3. nibali 4. bouhanni 5. uran »

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 &#...

@Gervais's posts:

  1. VSP PICKS: 1. moser 2. gilbert 3. valverde 4. rodriguez 5. martin »

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...

@Gervais's posts:

  1. VSP PICKS: 1. contador 2. rodriguez 3. gilbert 4. sagan 5. esjedal »

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...

@Gervais's posts:

  1. Sagan will rise VSP PICKS: 1. Sagan 2. Hesjedal 3. Gilbert 4. Valverde 5. Slagter »

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...

@Gervais's posts:

  1. VSP PICKS: 1. chavanel 2. cancellara 3. roleandts 4. vansummeren 5. ladagnous »

  2. VSP PICKS: 1. chavanel 2. cancellara 3. roleandts 4. vansummeren 5. rollin »

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...

@Gervais's posts:

  1. edit VSP PICKS: 1. Sagan 2. Chavanel 3. Cancellara 4. Roelandts 5. Langeveld »

  2. VSP PICKS: 1. Sagan 2. Chavanel 3. Cancellara 4. Roelandts 5. Flecha »

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...

@Gervais's posts:

  1. VSP PICKS: 1. Sagan 2. Gilbert 3. Boonen 4. Rollin 5. Boivin »

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...

@Gervais's posts:

  1. VSP PICKS: 1. peter sagan 2. thor ushovd 3. philippe gilbert 4. moreno moser 5. mark cavendish »

Velominati Super Prestige: L’Eroica/Strade Bianche 2013

Until the 70′s it was common to race on gravel roads, but the Paving of the Planet has led to nearly every road being graced by smooth, black tarmac. As is the case with most things, once we are shown the easy path, it is difficult to return to more arduous ways. So it is with gravel roads; we take measures to avoid unpaved roads and in doi...

@Gervais's posts:

  1. VSP PICKS: 1. Peter sagan 2. Lars Boom 3. Cadel Evans 4. fabian cancellara 5. Moreno Moser »

Velominati Super Prestige: Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 2013

Outside my window, its pouring rain. My bike is leaning agains the wall in my office, covered in grim and grit from the ride in, which was characterized by equal parts cold, wind, and rain. The spot in the locker room where I changed before my shower was marked by sand and mud, and when I walked to the shower, I left a trail of dirty footprints.It...

@Gervais's posts:

  1. VSP PICKS: 1. Thor Hushovd 2. Lars Boom 3. Dominique Rollin 4. Edvald Boasson Hagen 5. Johan Van Summeren »

La Vie Velominatus: Flemish Tan Lines

Clouds hang heavy in the sky, plump with a rain which contemplates the opportunity to hurl itself towards the Earth below. I get the sense that we wait for each other, the Rain and I; the rain relishes the opportunity to soak my clothes and skin, seeking to corrode my resolve while I cherish the opportunity to prove to myself that it will not be s...

@Gervais's posts:

  1. @Tobin here in quebec what we lack in cobbles we make up in shitty roads »

  2. Dans ma tête je suis en Belgique »

The Lexicon: A Retraction

The recent headlines being made in the cycling world have honestly not garnered a whole lot of attention at V-HQ, at least where a certain COTHO is concerned. Yes, The Keepers have added to the usual discussions on the topic here, read the news, and given it some thought. But we really don’t feel the need to take any sort of official position...

@Gervais's posts:

  1. Last night i read the wikipedia entry on LeMan and after all the shit he’s been trough  i think october 22nd should now be known as LeMan’s day in the land of the velominati »