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Velominatus: eightzero

Order: Gray Order Velominatus

Location: Seattle, WA

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An old man with a bike.

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In most situations, silence is an ominous thing that signals impending doom. Having never been in any danger myself, I base this largely on my experience watching box-office movies. As a general rule, I use Hollywood as the principal source of information on all subjects as they relate to doom and politics, principally because I’m loath t...

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  1. @PeakInTwoYears Merckx be praised; may I be worthy of The V. »

  2. @frank To quote Dr. Smith, “oh the pain. The pain.” Moahr milez this weekend. Moahr. But jeebuz h merckx, every time I look at those profiles for the stage cogal, I ask myself, “what have you done?” »

  3. This is fine, fine writing. Indeed, the Principle of Silence is of primary importance to me. I’ve found I like listening to all the subtle sounds of my bike. I’ve even discovered some of the noises are related to the expected flex of the components, and a… »

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. And no, I actually don’t want to discuss the women’s ITT at the Tour of California. »

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. YJAs suck, if for no other reason than it makes you look like a douchenozzle. When I am riding, I want to be like the perfect waiter at a restaurant: never seen, but always appreciated. My sole mission on a bike is to stay the fuck out of everyones way. … »

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. Winning often means that you just didn’t lose. VSP PICKS: 1. Good Cadel 2. Nibbles 3. Gesink 4. Hesjedahl 5. Whiggoe »

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. Yes, gotta make the swap: Gesink for Sanchez. VSP PICKS (1st Rest Day Swaps): 1. Gesink 2. Nibali 3. Hesjedahl 4. Evans 5. Wiggins »

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. Reverence: »

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. Any chance the jersey can be customized with rider name on the back of the collar like The Pros have? Hmmm? »

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. OK, for the record, my spending an extra 10 minutes in the shower in Rule #33 efforts is generally acceptable, but then getting out and dumping Rogaine all over my head is fucked up. It’s like fucking your sister: sure, she’s got a blouse full of goodies, … »

  2. There is an entry for this in the Wookieepedia: http://wookieepedia.org/w/Wookieepedia »

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. @Chris Worth considering, but Merckxdammit, they don;t seem to have a US distributor. Wonder how many quid I’m expected to shell out for them. And let’s just say I am metering my V on all equipment. Every hour I devote to Fucking Around With Fucking Tu… »

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. VSP PICKS: 1. Sanchez 2. Nibali 3. Hesjedahl 4. Evans 5. Wiggins »

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. While we’re on the subject, a bit of an update on my road tubeless experence. I converted R28Aero2s from Neuvation to Tubeless using the Stans no-tubes system and hutchinson fusion 3s. I like the setup, particularly the reduction in pressures. I put abou… »

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. Do we have to put in their fucking first names too? ‘Cus…I’m a busy guy… VSP PICKS: 1. Sanchez 2. Nibali 3. Hesjedahl 4. Basso 5. Wiggins »

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. @bianchi777 Nice! And here’s a genuine question (for anyone:) How the the name of this bike manufacturer pronounced? Is it pin-a-REL-oh? Or is it pin-a-REE-oh? »

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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  2. Chapeau to The V-Kitted Velominatus I passed on the trail in Kenmore on Tuesday evening. A-Merckx! »

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. er…valverde jrod, martin. »

  2. Yeah, hey another point. Martin, JRod and Martin? Guess I need to throw my computer. »

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. @Chris That’s the thing about sport. You choose your heroes and make your likes and dislikes on a totally subjective basis. The same thing that makes Wiggo a hero to you makes him a twatwaffle to me; and that is actually kinda cool and fun. I’m not a bi… »

  2. @paolo Ya know, this kind of thing bothers the shitte out of me. Schleckanicals are endemic to the technology. Anyone who ever mounts a Bike must do so only upon first accepting that the technology has inherent risks and limitations. If you cannot accep… »

Unfortunately the weather for 2013 L-B-L looks a lot nicer than the 1980 episode.  Then again, if the weather looked that bad, they might have cancelled the race or put them on buses before Bastogne and driven them back towards Liege. Who would be the Badger of the peloton of this year’s race in those conditions? Discuss. As always, we have...

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  1. @PeakInTwoYears Concur. Fine writing, +V. Next time some dickwad objects to doping because “it puts riders’ health at risk” remind them that there was a time when riders gave two fingers to win. »

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. VSP PICKS: 1. Valverde 2. Nibali 3. Martin 4. J. Rod 5. Gerrans »

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. Yeah, I think I get a point. »