Archive for the ‘Defining Moments’ Category

Twistin Banged and Felled. And Got Back Up.

by frank / Jun 6 2012 / 122 posts

As a byproduct of brakes being strictly for ornamental purposes, cyclists are often forced to find alternative means of stopping their bikes. As a matter of both convenience and effectiveness, the tarmac and other objects of greater mass than the sum of cyclist and bicycle are often employed for this purpose. Collectively, we refer to this process...

La Vie Velominatus: Addiction

by frank / May 11 2012 / 115 posts

I feel it in my bones. I feel it in my breathing. I fixate on how much I feel it in my legs to the point where I find myself in a meeting, rubbing them to gauge how soft they’ve gotten. (Must learn to stop doing that in public as it can’t possibly improve my social standing. I’m tempted to cite the fact that I’m a Cyclist an...

Keepers Tour 2012 Update, Part 3: Awesome, Kinda Weird, Awesome Again, and Solemn

by Marko / Apr 19 2012 / 77 posts

With Keepers Tour: Cobbled Classics 2012 stitched up and in the history books, the challenge of documenting the trip became immediately obvious; how do you take the myriad impressions, experiences, and perspectives and put them down in a meaningful way – let alone in a way that can somehow be digested. Surely, to document even just the Keeper...

Keepers Tour 2012 Update, Part 2: The Lion Rides Today

by brett / Apr 17 2012 / 82 posts

With Keepers Tour: Cobbled Classics 2012 stitched up and in the history books, the challenge of documenting the trip became immediately obvious; how do you take the myriad impressions, experiences, and perspectives and put them down in a meaningful way – let alone in a way that can somehow be digested. Surely, to document even just the Keeper...

Keepers Tour 2012 Update, Part I: Roubaix & RVV

by frank / Apr 13 2012 / 140 posts

With Keepers Tour: Cobbled Classics 2012 stitched up and in the history books, the challenge of documenting the trip became immediately obvious; how do you take the myriad impressions, experiences, and perspectives and put them down in a meaningful way – let alone in a way that can somehow be digested. Surely, to document even just the Keeper...

Guest Article: The Most Beautiful Race in the World

by il ciclista medio / Apr 6 2012 / 114 posts

Finally we can speak to this Paris-Roubaix mythology. The Keepers Tour group rode twenty-one sectors at something much slower than race speed. After the first sector we regrouped and we were all stunned by how bad it was. Twenty more sectors of that? That was horrendously tough.The first sectors are the easy ones. The hard ones start with the famou...

The 2011 Anti-V Moment of the Year: Paris Roubaix

by frank / Jan 19 2012 / 215 posts

While the The V Moment of the Year is the moment during the season when the sport demonstrated the most pure example of spirit of The V, The Anti-V Moment of the Year similarly acknowledges the moment in which all those things that make The V great were ignored. This is more than just cheating or climbing into the broom wagon; this is reserved...

The 2011 V Moment of the Year: Paris Roubaix

by frank / Jan 16 2012 / 93 posts

The V Moment of the Year isn’t an award so much as acknowledgment of the moment during the season when the sport demonstrated the most pure example of spirit of The V. This is more than pushing hard en route to glory; The V Moment is the one point in time at which, despite a rider’s body and mind screaming to sit up in acquiescence, th...

Guest Article: Me, My Bike, and Irene

by King Clydesdale / Dec 26 2011 / 51 posts

This week Velominati is publishing a selection of guest contributions. It shouldn’t be fun but it is, until it’s not. I’m talking Rule #9 here and @King Clydesdale brings us a perfect example of why a Rule should be a Rule and why the proof is in the riding. Continue reading...

Darkness

by jim / Dec 22 2011 / 91 posts

Yesterday, Seattle was dark for 15 hours 34 minutes and 37 seconds. Let us not count how much it was light– it is of no use to us. I rode to work in the black, and in the black I rode home.The darkness is good to me. It shields my filthy chain from those who would judge it. It casts anonymity over the creaking of my bottom bracket. It erases...
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