Anatomy of a Photo: Awkward Adolescence
Evolution is a slow, gradual process, punctuated by sudden change. For the first 80 years of our sport, riders rode contra la montre on their regular road bikes. For…
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Oct 12, 2011 • 72 comments
Evolution is a slow, gradual process, punctuated by sudden change. For the first 80 years of our sport, riders rode contra la montre on their regular road bikes. For…
Oct 5, 2011 • 102 comments
This photo of Phil Anderson’s genuine surprise at the gap between himself and the guy who won at losing reminds me of a story my…
Sep 15, 2011 • 42 comments
A mechanical of any kind thrusts a professional cyclist into a kind of paradoxical isolation; swarmed by cars and motorcycles, yet they are often left alone…
Aug 26, 2011 • 77 comments
The Rules, of course, are a sort of reference guide for those of us who may need a little bit of help making sure we…
Aug 8, 2011 • 122 comments
I know the feeling, Laurent. Sometimes I just want to give the cross winds a big, “Fuck You”, too.
Jun 17, 2011 • 45 comments
It’s been said before, but it bears repeating: the shoes say an awful lot about the rider. More than they’d like them to in retrospect,…
Jun 13, 2011 • 65 comments
If we were meant to fly, Merckx would have given us wings. But he did give us two wheels and Physics. The first allows us…
May 22, 2011 • 28 comments
Today’s stage of the Giro finished on a steep dirt road. But when we talk about dirt roads – even the ones in of the…
May 18, 2011 • 28 comments
I’m not quire sure which climb this is, but I’m certain the race is Liége-Bastogne-Liége and I’m guessing the climb La Redoute. On the surface, we…
May 3, 2011 • 90 comments
Jeff in PetroMetro submitted this piece to us quite some time back, and we decided to hold off on publishing it until we got a…
Apr 26, 2011 • 109 comments
A lot has been made lately of the fact that riders today are lacking a little bit of the V. It’s not so much a…
Mar 24, 2011 • 59 comments
Perusing the Velominati Archives of Cycling Photos Liberated from the Interwebs (VACPLI), I stumbled across this little gem. I’m sure they are lovely people on…
Mar 20, 2011 • 53 comments
The above photo was liberated from a Dutch website which appears to be dedicated solely to a book about Dutch and Belgian riders both old…
Mar 7, 2011 • 83 comments
I’m not particularly fond of this photo, but it certainly tells you a thing or two about Le Blaireau. A man more comfortable speaking with his…
Feb 27, 2011 • 98 comments
In honor of the first Australian to win KBK it seems appropriate to give a Chapeau to our mates down under. Congrats to perhaps the…
Feb 23, 2011 • 21 comments
Whenever I send out an Out of Office reminder at work, I take special care to indicate where I’ll be, which is always Awesomeville. It amazes…
Feb 12, 2011 • 63 comments
All I can do is quote @michael: $27,250 for this POS. Don’t know if it’s worth an article or just a post, but for that…
Jan 31, 2011 • 89 comments
Sitting at the top of Haleakala, I thought of this photo with the staunch realization that there are no words to describe the agony of…
Jan 19, 2011 • 63 comments
One of my favorite pass times is to chuck a cycling term into Google’s Image Search, set the filter to Large, and see what turns…
Jan 11, 2011 • 39 comments
With the “widely anticipated” unveiling of both Leopard-Trek’s and Garmin-Cervelo’s new kits we thought it would be interesting to look back into the archives to…