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A Climb to Love: Passo San Boldo

Passo San Boldo lies in the northern reaches of the Italian Alps, and was a walking path until World War I, when the Austrians realized that traffic accidents were a less conscience-laden approach to controlling population growth than chucking mortars across a border at people who drink different alcohol than they do.  Access to the steep, one-la...

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  1. Nothing over 12%? Ha!  A cinch. My legs hurt just looking at those photos… »

V Day

Ah, February 14 is here again. A very special day for all of us. A day you don’t want to forget. A day when you make that extra effort to show the one you love just how much they mean to you. V Day.On this day, I will rise early, tiptoeing out of bed so as not to make any noise and stir the sleeping. I will dress quickly and quietly, leaving...

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  1. Beautiful. I cast an eye over my lovely lady last night as she slept.  She’s properly dirty at the moment; this morning when I woke her she was a little grizzly, a little reluctant. Tomorrow, I shall strip her down and make her feel like a new lady agai… »

Training: The Fourth Bridge

Before the New Year, it was my ride up Haleakala. At present, it’s Keepers Tour: Cobbled Classics 2013. Before Haleakala, it was one of the various Cyclocross races and before that the Zoo Hill Time Trial. The targets change, but throughout my life as a Velominatus, there always seems to be a goal looming over the horizon which spurs me on. T...

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  1. @piwakawaka That’s pretty impressive training that made the bike lose weight too. ;) »

The Phoenix

As a dyed-in-the-wool Northerner, my time living in the South was a mixed bag. Southerners think differently, speak differently, eat differently, and prioritize life differently than do Yankees. In many ways, I became a better person during my time in the South, learning to relax a little bit and stop chasing my tail over everything all the time...

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  1. Some awesome photos here.  However What about, er… the French? »

Il Progetto: The Bozzie Is Single

Let’s talk about bikes. Yeah, bikes are good. After all, they are “the central tool to our craft.” They are the reason we became Velominati, the portal through which we travelled to this life. When we were kids, we saw a bike for the first time; we liked the look of it, and when we rode it our lives were changed forever. We didn&#...

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  1. Tip on the iPad / iPhone photo upload – get the Photobucket app and a free account.  You can copy the image location and use that. Re the singly bike – this is not helping my desire to n+1 something old and classy.  Not one bit. »

Meditations on the V-Meter

There was no need for Rule #74 until the cyclometer showed up on our handlebars. According to the late Sheldon Brown, the cyclometer has been around since the early 1900s.“Star-wheel cyclometers, such as the Lucas unit, suffered two serious problems. They made an annoying “tink-tink-tink” noise. At high speeds, the star wheel would s...

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  1. @eightzero And again for the record – I’ve decided I don’t need more bike shit. I need more time to ride my fucking bike. Amen to that. »