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Saved By The Bike

Addiction is typically defined as a bad thing. Addiction to drugs, to alcohol, sex or even work is usually portrayed as a condition to be battled, to overcome. The same sources may recommend a strict regime of regular exercise and healthy living as the perfect antidote to the bad addictions that befall an overwhelming majority of the general popul...

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  1. All right, I am going  right out and ask, I have been in southern California for 6 months and have been riding solo up and down the mountains here. I am gonna come out and ask right now, I would not mind a riding partner now and then! I don’t know anyone … »

Descendeur

We close out the 6 Days of the Giro with our sixth and final installment.A body at rest, stays at rest. A body in motion, stays in motion. Things get a bit more ambiguous when it comes to a body on a bicycle tearing down a twisty mountain descent at speed, particularly in the rain. But it is here, on the boundary between clarity and ambiguity, wher...

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  1. I love descending, but I am not terribly good at. I raced motorbikes for a season a few years back and while this helps you understand some of the physics involved with cornering, It’s strangely different. With a motorbike your back wheel slides a lot and… »

Dirty Romantics

We’re into day three of the Six Days of the Giro series, and it’s time to hit the dirt.If ever a Keepers Tour goes to Italy, then we’re doing this climb. No doubt. Climbing on gravel up a real mountain, what’s not to love? Continue reading...

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  1. @Buck Rogers Yah, thats a fun one! did that on my single speed cross bike last year( had to run 100 meters of the steepest  bit, lost traction. ) lovely countryside, and the roads getting there are filled with awesome too! »

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...

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  1. Thats not Irony. The use of that word is derogatory. »

  2. I think Tri -Dorks, is better. I love cycling like crazy but shit like that bumm’s me out! »

  3. I have no patience for homophobia! »

  4. ”tryfags” Are you fucking are you kidding me! I am this close to being done with anybody in cycling! »

Sur La Plaque: Rule #33

We’re heaping coals on the Giro frenzy that’s burning in all corners of the Cycling world by issuing the second installment of the monthly BigRingRiding Sur la Plaque series while at the same time kicking off the Six Days of the Giro series where we’ll post six articles on the subject of this, the best Grand Tour of the year. Y...

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  1. lycra shorts and hairy legs look terrible. I may not be completely compliant with every rule, but this is a biggie for me. And as far as someone questioning your sexuality, that is there issue not yours. »

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...

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  1. That really sucks for Stybar He was looking great, and most likely won’t have that chance next year. »

The Double

Winning one Monument in a career is more than most Pros will ever achieve. Winning two in a season, nearly impossible. Winning two a week apart, it has been done more than a few times, by only the toughest of men. The Ronde and Roubaix both have cobbles but that is about all they have in common. Roubaix might be the harder one to win. The evil Lady...

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  1. @Ron Yeah for sure I am 5’6” I know only to well. »

  2. @Ron I also think it’s funny that in sports almost nobody lists themselves below 5’7” i.e. ”Purito”. There is no way that cat is 5’7”. »

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...

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  1. It’s crazy how small the bikes look these days »

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. There is nothing like passing a Carbon Craplet on my single speed Faggin up climb. It may not happen often, but when it does, magic! »

La Vie Velominatus: Perched Eyewear

There is something supremely Fantastic about a precisely manicured set of sunglasses, particularly when they’re not being used for their intended purpose. Certainly, there are times when circumstance offer no alternative but to actually look through them, but for the most part, it’s a bit pedestrian to use sunglasses for seeing through...

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  1. O, Pantani. I don’t care how much Blow and EPO were in practice. You were fucking magic!!! End of story. »

Guest Anatomy of a Photo: Here We Rest

@steampunk dropped this beauty of a photo on us. Volumes being spoken here, none of which makes being a pro look so great. Thanks Steamy.VLVV, Gianni Continue reading...

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  1. My god what our heros to them selves in the name sport. I don’t see anything pitiful in this image, I see a warrior. I know that sounds cheesy. »

Peer Pressure

Eight point V bar. From the moment I bought my first set of high quality road clinchers, I’ve ridden at that pressure. I started with that number because that’s the pressure the sidewall told me to pump them up to; I didn’t yet understand much about balancing the benefits of high and low pressures to optimize comfort and friction;...

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  1. @anthony I mean 54 kilos »

  2. I like 6.5 bar front and back on 25mm tires. Any more than that and I feel like I’m getting bounced all over the place on crap roads, any less than 6 feels sluggish to me. sayin’ that I’m only 64 kilos »