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Repeats last year’s Café Domestique to the Shed Coffee Bar in Erin Date/Time Date - May 26, 2013 8:35 AM - 4:00 PM Continue reading...

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  1. Repeats last year’s Café Domestique to the Shed Coffee Bar in Erin

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    Date/Time
    Date - May 26, 2013
    8:35 AM - 4:00 PM

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    Café Domestique

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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. @Tartan1749 Yes sir.  Not the sexiest, raciest tires of the bunch but the Maxxis Re-Fuses have been the best at holding up to road debris.  I figure I end up spending more time changing flats than I lose in increased rolling resistance.  I’ve tried Co… »

The Cannibal Velo Club Trustees met recently over frosty mugs to plan a joint Velominati-Cannibal Spring Cogal here in Connecticut.Proposed details: Continue reading...

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  1. The Cannibal Velo Club Trustees met recently over frosty mugs to plan a joint Velominati-Cannibal Spring Cogal here in Connecticut.

    Proposed details:

    • Date: Sunday May 19th (shrewdly missing both the Mother’s Day and Memorial Day weekends).
    • Accommodations: I’m sure that among the Cannibals, we can host most or all of the visiting Velominati/hoti. Bed & Breakfast venues are also available nearby. A Saturday Dinner/BBQ would be great for those who arrive the day before the ride.
    • Route: about 130km, about 5k climbing! That’s a lot of climbing FFS.  A mix of short, tough climbs, endless rollers, and scenic beauty in both rural and coastal areas.

    http://connect.garmin.com/course/2423364

    We can figure out other details, mid-ride chow, timing, etc. as the date nears. In the meantime, please share your thoughts and suggestions.

    Contact me about the Cannibal Connecticut Cogal May 19, 2013; Chuck Mueller- cgmueller2@gmail.com ; Cannibal VeloClub info: www.cannibal-veloclub.webs.com ; @CannibalVelo on Twitter ; ‘Canniabal Velo Club’ on Facebook.

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    Date - May 19, 2013
    9:05 AM - 8:00 PM

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    Simon's Marketplace

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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. @DerHoggz It’s something that you could observe over time with a kind of diary, using weight as a proxy for body fat unless you have one of those fancy scales.  Anyway, I admire the hell out of you guys even being able to get yourselves into that zone. »

  2. @PeakInTwoYears BMI = bullshit. And just to complete the process of boring everyone to death, I would suggest that the measure of BMI is not the problem, but its use for something for which it was not intended, like recruiting criteria. »

  3. @scaler911 @PeakInTwoYears Right, BMI is just a rough measure for adults, and doesn’t account for body type or composition.  It is just the coin of the particular realm that I’m familiar with. I’ve had a few patients with BMIs of 14. Anyway, whatever m… »

  4. @scaler911 @Buck Rogers @ped That’s an interesting personal observation, @ scaler911.  What is your BMI at that tipping point, if you don’t mind such a personal question? And there is some mysterious interplay between caloric and micro-nutrient defici… »

  5. @Chris Bingo.  “Hiking the Appalachian Trail” is another one that is gaining in popularity with the added benefit of making one seem all Bear Grylls-y. @Buck Rogers To be more serious, I am curious about infectious disease and pro cycling, as it is not… »

  6. @Buck Rogers @Chris Withdrawing from a race due to “a nasty infection” is the cycling equivalent “I am resigning to spend more time with my family”. Free swaps (and urinalysis) for everybody! »

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. VSP PICKS: 1. Santambrogio 2. Atapuma 3. Pelizotti 4. Nibali 5. Evans »

  2. @Sauterelle Ah, they are all cute, in an aero sort of way. Rather, a Wiggo-mocking reference to explain my descent in the Giro VSP standings. VSP PICKS: 1. Rabottini 2. Atapuma 3. Gatto 4. Nibali 5. Evans »

  3. I pick like a bit of a girl really…not to disrespect girls, I have two at home. VSP PICKS: 1. Rabottini 2. Atapuma 3. Gatto 4. Nibali 5. Evans »

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. @Mikael Liddy Yes, and though I didn’t select him, I’m glad to see him making a showing.  Those of us who picked Wiggo, who has been a little too Schlecktacular, for the win might consider Cuddles for the top step on a rest day swap flyer.  Today’s TT t… »

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. @Steampunk Dude, that’s why you were born with two hands. »

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. Wiggins 2. Nibali 3. Hesjedal 4. Scarponi 5. Domenico Pozzovivo »

  2. TBR VSP PICKS: 1. Wiggins 2. Nibali 3. Hesjedal 4. Uran 5. Scarponi »

  3. @Mikael Liddy way to go Mrs. Liddy and welcome to the world, Sebastian. »

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. @Ron Aerodynamic nightmare, or Aeromare for short.  Lash me and the bike to the mast of catamaran and you could probably win the fucking America’s Cup or whatever they call it now. But a tail wind, ah, I just unfurl the spinnakers and get a taste of wh… »

I have weird feet, apparently. It’s not really something you normally come to realize without asking questions that one rarely has reason to ask. I might have asked them, though, had I ever had any notion that feet don’t always have to hurt in a cycling shoe. Hurt might be a strong word – more like “squished” or “numb”. I’ve also h...

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  1. @DerHoggz I had blue and went to green and was able to ride 14 hours in Vermont with the feet being the least of my worries, though that may have been true even if they’d been ground into bloody stumps.  I realize the Specialized footbeds are a bit gen… »

  2. @roger for the previous r3s, I was not impressed with the in-store proprietary Easy-Bake Oven sole molding that the LBS provided. I couldn’t get the needed high arch support so I swapped them out for some generic Spesh green inserts.  I feel so dirty. »

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. Certain to hand over the Belgian badge tomorrow.  Good luck boys and girls. VSP PICKS: 1. Valverde 2. Gerrans 3. Martin 4. Gilbert 5. Henao »

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. Gilbert 2. Valverde 3. Quintana 4. Henao 5. Martin »

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. Vos 2. Van Dijk 3. Johansson 4. Borghini 5. Moolman »

  2. VSP PICKS: 1. Vos 2. Van Dijk 3. Johansson 4. Borghini 5. Van Vleuten »

Yes it is a race named after a barely drinkable Dutch beer. I have enjoyed Amstel beer, brought to our table by a nice waitress, sitting outside in the Dutch spring. Atmosphere is everything. Do the Dutch brew awesome beer? I drank some good stuff in Amsterdam last spring but I’m pretty sure it was Belgian.Now we begin the Ardennes three race...

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  1. @ChrisO @Harminator @asyax’s evil anagram lives in Brooklyn »