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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. I’ll say 37.9895 km. »

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...

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  1. http://youtu.be/M38N0l0rMF0 I didn’t see this posted here, so I thought I’d share. The commentary made me giggle a bit. »

Cold Fact

Wellington isn’t renown for its great summers; a mate is always quick to remind me that if the weather was perfect all the time, everyone would want to live here and we’d be overrun by Aucklanders (just like Aussies but not quite dumb enough to live in Canberra). As our summer goes into its last death throes of amazingly calm, sunny, cl...

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  1. To the nth = to the utmost or extreme degree :) »

Defining Moments: Hood Position

If I spent half a summer riding with one hand on the tops and one on the hoods, I spent the other half riding with each hand deliberately gripping the hoods differently. As any young Cyclist growing up in the United States in the late 80s, I had a major thing for Greg LeMond.I imagined Greg to be the perfect Cyclist, as youth often does of their...

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  1. @frank Why does Sastre have a binky in those pics? »

Passista

My first article on Velominati was to introduce one of my favorite cyclists, Eros Poli. I refered to him as a domestique on the Mercatone-Uno team. This faux pas was properly pointed out much later by @KaffeineKeiser, a commenter who suddenly surfaced and unfortunately submerged just as quickly, like Das Boot in the Straits of Gibraltar.*I do tak...

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  1. Where he spent 12 hours hauling the coal cars up and down the mine via a chain gripped in his teeth. »

Guest Article: Bike #2

I don’t have to tell anyone around here that @Cyclops is weird guy; most of you have already figured that out, and if you haven’t figured it out, you will soon enough. But weird doesn’t have any negative meaning, if you ask me. In fact, I’d say we’re all weird which makes normal more suspect. Several years ago, long be...

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  1. This is where we say Bel Mezzo yes? That’s a heck of a nice ride you made. How does it ride? »

La Vie Velominatus: A Rule #25 Reasoned Decision

There was no clear indication that Rick’s car had actually come to a complete stop. It wasn’t that the car hadn’t stopped its forward trajectory – it had – it was just that the car hadn’t actually stopped moving. Long after the vehicle had come to rest in what could only be considered a legitimate parking spot by...

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  1. @Tartan1749 They should have used a wooden bike. Maybe something in Bamboo to accent the wooden car. »

Guest Article: Focus

@scaler911 likes beer and pizza, as we all do. I bet Jensie does too. He races more, we drink more, he has to finish each stage at the Tour, us, not so much. There must be a balance to all our cycling lives. Since we don’t have to earn a living racing we can relax a bit but this word “relax” maybe where the trouble lies.Yours in C...

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  1. Like “Ah hell, I just stepped in some Armstrong. That’ll take forever to get out of my cleats.”? »

  2. Apologies, I had missed it whilst perusing. I was pretty close though :) I must have absorbed some wisdom over time. »

  3. Submitted for your approval after inspiration struck me during intervals on the trainer this evening. Our father which art in Belgium,  Eddy be thy name.  thy pave come thy V be done on road as it is on trainers.  Give us this day, our daily V and forgiv… »

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...

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  1. Is there anywhere this is going to be televised in the US? I’d like to see how the pros do it. »

Velominati Super Prestige: Men’s Olympic Road Race 2012

You can all wave “goodbye” to your Post GT Depression Syndrome, because the Men’s Olympic Road Race is only three days yonder. I don’t typically give two shits about this particular event; while contested by national teams, unlike the Worlds it appears as just another one-day race on a calendar filled with events that carry...

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  1. @Jonny That makes sense for the most part, but the thing is, by the time that second break took off and had that 20 second lead, GB should have been well aware at that point that the Aussies, Germans and Belgians et. al. weren’t going to give them a shre… »

  2. So I’ve lurked for a while here, and I thought this would be a good place to first post as this is really the first road race I’ve been able to watch start to finish. I have a question about GB’s tactics here. If they had 5 guys, why near the end of this… »