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Whilst Brett hails from the land Down Under, he hates that fucking song. An Aussie now living as a Kiwi, he is at home on the rich dirt of New Zealand's mountain bike trails as he is on the scorching tarmac of Australia. Despite his geographical disadvantage, the cobblestones and kassien of Belgium and Northern France hold a special place in his heart and it's where you'll find him each Spring, either with a bike underneath him or a fine Belgian ale in his hand.

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Bicycles and automobiles- can’t we all just get along? @Kah writes about this universal (do aliens have this issue also?) problem of us co-existing with humans in cars. We all drive cars too and have cursed the occasional cyclists for some good reason. Cars are our greatest threat. We can crawl away from our own bicycle crashes, thanks very m...

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  1. There’s even a few YBPCAs in that photo… »

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...

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  1. Wiggo’s got bigger fish to fry… »

  2. Can you go into negative points? Let’s see… VSP PICKS (1st Rest Day Swaps): 1. Morabito 2. Millar 3. Machado 4. Modolo 5. Marcato »

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. @Ron Ask this guy… »

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. After witnessing two KT riders with two Garmins getting two different sets of directions trying to get us around L-B-L, all I can say is thank Merckx for roadworkers and locals. »

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...

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  1. @strathlubnaig One art the top, one at the bottom… »

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. @G’rilla No CX bikes though… I’m onto you. »

The Bike. It is the central tool in pursuit of our craft. A Velominatus meticulously maintains their bicycles and adorns them with the essential, yet minimal, accoutrement. The Rules specify the principles of good taste in configuration and setup of our machines, but within those principles lies almost infinite room for personal taste.It seems in s...

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  1.  I think they might be Italian.                               »

  2. Never heard of Sarto before, but boy they make some saweet bikes. Lovin the Ti…     »

  3. @SimonH Bella. @DocBrian Them’s some heavy tyres. »

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...

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  1. @Daccordi Rider Ok then. And I’ll make the rest of my picks just as ridiculous. Jackson Rodriguez solely because his name is always the first one that comes up when everyone picks the other Rod and it’ll save an extra click. Ji Cheng. Raising awarene… »

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. Yep, this is definitely nice stuff. The bibs feel a bit more ‘there’ than the Castellis due to the heavier lycra. Sizing, I wore an XL in Castelli and I think I could easily wear an L in Kallisto. Mainly a length thing, they are a touch longer because the… »

We are the Keepers of the Cog.  In so being, we also maintain the sacred text wherein lie the simple truths of cycling etiquette known as The Rules. It is in our trust to maintain and endorse this list.See also The Prophet’s Prayer. Continue reading...

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  1. @pasmith1001 That is fine, it’s not a replica Maillot Jaune, it’s a Rapha jersey that is yellow. Although they have way cooler looking jerseys than that one… »

  2. @piwakawaka Do you work for Frontera or something? Humans don’t need cow’s milk. No matter what propagandists tell you. Rice milk does it all and more, without the suffering. But most people just don’t give a shit. »

  3. @the-farmer Ignorance isn’t an excuse to defend archaic, unnecessary practices. Research (and an open mind) is your friend. »

  4. @piwakawaka I do… »

  5. @piwakawaka Maybe if you’re a cow you might need cow’s milk, when you’re a calf. But humans only need human milk, when they’re a baby. The dairy industry is just a money making exercise based on a fallacy built on extreme cruelty. End of. »

  6. @DocBrian Promite. End of. »

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. @frank It’s true though, the back wheel should be touching as well as/rather than the saddle. Especially if using a pole to lean the bike against… you lean a bike against a street sign by the saddle and it’s gonna roll and fall over. Use the rear wheel… »

  2. @frank »

  3. When I first started working in a certain bike shop, the first thing the owner stressed to me (and every new staffer) was that under NO circumstances must bikes be leant against anything by the seat or bars. Only by the back wheel, to prevent the bike rol… »

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 &#...

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  1. @LA Dave Sky now, Sky now… »

  2. Sky = Gewiss VSP PICKS: 1. Froome Her to Eternity 2. Crowded House 3. Porte of Morrow 4. Hungry like the Wolf 5. Suitsyou Sir »

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...

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  1. VSP PICKS: 1. Krueziger 2. Moser 3. Cothodor 4. Anton 5. J Vanendert »

Last year we saw Evelyn Stevens out-last Marianne Vos at the top of the Mur de Huy. The take home message is don’t start one’s charge too early. Vos should know this finish, having won it four times already. It’s hard to know who is on form in the professional women field as the races are too far apart to infer much from the last...

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  1. VSP PICKS: 1. Warpdrive 2. Emily C 3. Bras R Us 4. On The Rivat 5. AS Duyck »