Velominatus: cognition
Order: Level 4 Velominatus
Location: Utah
Social: Website
Roadie since '87, just missing LeMan's heyday but squeaking in to read about Stephen Roche's trifecta in the pages of Bicycling magazine in my public library back in high school in New York. Raced briefly, without success, as a Cat 4 junior and then occasionally in college in Southern California. In order, I've owned and ridden: lugged steel Bianchi, lugged steel (531) Trek, lugged steel Paramount, Ritchey mountain bike, Ti Kona mountain bike, Ti LeMond, and an Al Specialized CX bike. Still have all of them, to my wife's dismay; I may already be at S-1. Heretically, I still like running and backpacking.
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@Cyclops Awesome. Not exactly the same, but similar: http://vimeo.com/62537881 »
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{sigh}. Most of the time, I’m pretty happy with my job of teaching. Great breaks, usually have the ability to sneak in a ride after school gets out, then work in the evening to prepare for the next day and grade — but still get in some daylight. It fo… »
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@Buck Rogers I hesitate to even broach the subject, but I’ll be visiting my parents in Poughkeepsie over the week of Christmas. Keeping in mind that [1] I’m six months away from peaking, [2] will be riding an ancient Bianchi (circa ’90), and [3] won’t ha… »
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@frank Respectfully, and not to diminish Le professeur – one of my favorite photos of a solitary rider in the midst of a race has to come from the other French hardman, Le Blaireau, in his 100km breakaway to win the 1980 Liege-Bastogne-Liege. As an Am… »
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@Cyclops Fantastic job. As someone who’s had a long-standing back-burnered wish to build a bike or two, I’m both impressed and jealous. @Frank Beautiful build. Forgive my neophyte aesthetics, though, but it feels like it needs a white seatpost to me…. »
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As a 197cm skinny young rider growing up in the late eighties and early nineties, it was great to look up to Van Hooydonck (alongside Steven Rooks and Gert-Jan Theunisse, although those gentlemen didn’t have as enlightened a view of doping as Van Hooydonk… »
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Bikes have a soul, or at least a personality or character. Personally, I think it’s easier to see that soul if the builder crafted the bike with intent, passion, and love. I don’t think that those characteristics are inherent in any one group of bicycle… »
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@farzani Newbie to the site here, although I’ve been riding since ’87 and reading posts here feverishly since finding it a few months ago. If you like the idea of speedplay pedals but are held back by the thought of mud, grit, etc., take a look at bebop… »
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@harminator Indeed. In the earlier days of cyclocomputers, after the first wave of the avocets and the cat-eyes, but before euro-pros really bought into the idea of them, a couple of European companies made computers that mounted directly to the forks, … »
Yates used to rock the short-shorts on purpose, even ordering special shorts during his last years at Motorola. Supposedly because he was living on the Riviera at the time and didn’t like the tan lines when he was off the bike on the beach. I’m not sure… »
@unversio I had meant a complete Mavic groupset. Not a fair comparison since they’re not in that game anymore, and also not fully fair since some of Mavic’s stuff from the SSC era is wonderfully quirky. And they did manage to get an electric shifting gr… »
Il Giro e la maglia rosa para me, grazie. La Tour is a bigger deal; I won’t argue that. But I’m an italophile from a young age: I’d rather eat italian than french, I aspire to Campagnolo, not Mavic, my first good bike was a Bianchi, not Peugeot, and I’d… »