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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...

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  1. @JohnB Let’s hope plan B doesn’t involve adding a BB to his game. Might explain why he was all tuckered out leading up to the Giro though. https://twitter.com/ryder_hesjedal/status/327840793337425921 »

  2. I still hold a modicum of hope for our maple syrup powered superhero. Everyone else is just fodder. VSP PICKS: 1. Ryder Hesjedal 2. Nibbles 3. Cadel Evans 4. Wiggo 5. Rocky Rodriguez »

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...

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  1. @Mirko One would have to be Pharmstrong to full off such a feat. »

  2. @frank Nice try, Lance. »

  3. If Wiggo cannot make up his deficit on Ryder using this Triathlete’s wet dream tomorrow, he’s done for. »

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...

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  1. @frank [citation needed] Fun fact, in ’97 I was in culinary school. July was butchery month – 5 weeks of cutting up sides of beef, whole pigs, lamb, fish, and chicken. My instructor’s first name was Ulrich, we would always call each other Ule. I saw hi… »

  2. @Marcus Great point, I should really disinfect my screen. »

  3. @Gianni Thanks, I always knew I could be an inspiration to someone. You must follow me on Strava. Unless of course you’re talking about Ullrich. @frank Ulle. Ulle. you got it right once. @frank Ulle. Get it right. It’s Ulle. Not Ulli, Ully,… »

  4. @frank I’d like to point out I have recently acquired a short sleeved 1997 Telekom jersey to compliment my long sleeved one. I’d like to find the shorts but at this point in time the odds of me finding some that are unused are disconcertingly slim. »

  5. @Coulee country @Deakus Right, won’t happen again. »

  6. @Tobin Oh, the fucking bento boxes. And those compartments that they now have just above the chainstays. My guns will be looking like Cipo’s in no time. Just not as unctuous. @frank Done, I’ll see if I can dig mine up. I wouldn’t make it out of … »

  7. Henceforth I shall no longer call Triathletes ‘tryfags’. For my punishment for speaking ill of Triathletes I will be wearing Campagnolo compression socks and LED lit compression arm warmers in every race I ride in. http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Mode… »

  8. @The Grande Fondue Youtube link not working for me either. Good call. During yesterday’s 115km/2000m of climbing sufferfest some buddies and I rode past some tryfags, they were all getting aero. We got into an echelon (all three of us)and did this, chu… »

  9. @piwakawaka De mortuis nihil nisi bonum. »

  10. Funny, I was just reminiscing with a friend today about how I bought these aero bars because of Pantani. Had them mounted on my 1998 steel Vitali with Campagnolo Veloce. I think I still have them. Are they compliant with The Rules? I doubt that they’d wor… »

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...

@TBONE's posts:

  1. @Pedale.Forchetta He was listening to this prior to slaying the ITT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSJoD3YQenE »

  2. I’d choose Ryder 5 times, but you capitalists have problems with us socialists supporting each other. VSP PICKS: 1. Hesjadal 2. Wiggo 3. Rocky 4. Basso 5. Scarponi »

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...

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  1. @czmiel You can have what’s left after I’m done :) »

  2. Can us Germanic folk just go to Poland and pick up the kit on our own accord? Or do we actually have to pay for it? »

Young riders rise through the ranks with such promise. We all know the story; the rider who borrows a bicycle and enters a local race and wins. He decides he might be good at going batshit fast on a bike. Mom and Dad buy him a klunker for his birthday and he takes out a license. He starts winning most races he enters locally and rises to the region...

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  1. @frank Side note, I’ve secured a short sleeved 1998 Telekom jersey to compliment my long sleeved one. In the late ’90s when I turned up a local road races sporting said jersey I’d be asked if I was related to him, sometimes I played along. We don’t nee… »

  2. ‘its time for sacrifice.’ Just don’t sacrifice that apostrophe for some weight savings. »

André Leducq was a complete French Badass, with a capital B. He was third, below Merckx and Hinault for Tour de France stage wins. Nicolas Frantz was an equally Badass Luxembourger. He rode to more victories than Frandy Schleck shall ever attain in a few lifetimes. He did win the Tour de France.The crowd is obviously pleased to have these thin, he...

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  1. I’m Mr. Last Year’s Model. However now that I’m loosely sponsored by Parentini, I’ve put the vest in the mail for you. Keep an eye out for it. »

  2. @Ron Thanks! It’s an Assos vest of some kind, I got it from my LBS at a deal, they claimed that half of the front had been bleached by the sun and sold it to me at cost. »

  3. Here’s me at the bottom of the Col de la Madeline, observing Rule #47. I rode up,observed Rule #56 at the chalet, then led by example with Rule #55 and Rule #85. It goes without saying that all Kit related rules were also followed strictly, with the exception… »

There are always at least two ways to accomplish any task: properly and improperly. Drinking beer from a glass, not the bottle; carrying a full umbrella instead of a miniature fold-up; stirring your gin martinis, not shaking them; wearing french cuffs with a suit, not button cuffs. The Velominatus, of course, is drawn towards doing things Properly,...

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  1. It should be noted that I’m rolling with cufflinks and my locally made full size umbrella today. One of my coworkers asked me ‘Who spends $80 on an umbrella?’ I shot back with ‘Someone without two kids.’ The topic was never broached again. »