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Guest Article: Edric’s Windy, Wet, Wild Wiggle

by Chris / Jan 27 2012 / 88 posts

One of the cairns on the unknowable path to Cyclist is riding one’s first unimaginable distance. In the non-metric world it would be the first 100 mile ride, an unholy distance if one has never done it. And there is nothing for it. Come up with a rationalization, a plan, an excuse, something that forces one to cover 100 miles (or close to it)...

Guest Article: La Vie Velominatus-Transformation

by mblume / Dec 30 2011 / 43 posts

The fear of crashing is there but we can’t let override our pleasure in cycling. @mblume writes of this and underplays his riding the Haute Route. That ride alone should be a long article about abiding Rule V.Yours in Cycling, Gianni Continue reading...

Guest Article: Anatomy of a Photo-1994 Paris-Roubaix

by scaler911 / Dec 28 2011 / 44 posts

Duck and cover! Our guest article series rolls on with @scaler911′s Anatomy of a Photo. Photo, words, enough said.Yours in Cycling, …...

Guest Article: Rose tinted glasses

by wiscot / Dec 27 2011 / 16 posts

@wiscot’s article speaks of cyclists of our youths and Jan Raas made a big impression on the young Gianni. Do the Dutch have a harder Hardman? He went on to become a director-sportif and I pity the riders under his command, they must have suffered like dogs. I cannot find a photo to document this but Raas’s glasses had holes drilled int...

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...

Guest Article: Get it together

by Rob / Dec 23 2011 / 64 posts

It is my great pleasure to introduce this guest article, penned by my long time friend @Rob. I’ve know the lad since we were both in short pants. We both discovered cycling as something more serious than transportation at the same impressionable age. For Rob, his discipline gained from martial arts, his fearlessness on the bike and his innate...

Guest Article: Just give me something – something I can use

by eightzero / Dec 10 2011 / 124 posts

In our continuing guest article series, @eightzero weighs in on the modern cycling jersey. It’s made of some unholy material which has a half-life of fifty years and unless you crash in it, it’s still in your kit drawer. Yours in Cycling, Gianni …...

The Austin, Texas Cogal; December 4, 2011

by Jeff in PetroMetro / Nov 4 2011 / 193 posts

Stop the presses, North American Cogal #2 is off and running.  @Jeff in PetroMetro is organizing a ride deep in the heart-o-Texas on December 4, 2011 for the rider who wants a taste of drought, dust storm, truck nuts and fun. Lest we forget what a Cogal is, “… A meeting of like-minded misfits brought together by the promise of beer, pr...

Guest Article: Interbike 2011

by sgt / Sep 30 2011 / 106 posts

Imagine my surprise when, while enthusiastically discussing the “porn show” down in Vegas, some of my coworkers expressed concern and declared the discussion of this subject during a conference call to be “inappropriate”. Apparently, there is some other kind of porn that doesn’t involve bicycles that also has a show th...

Guest Article: Reverence: Cannondale Immix Bottle Cage

by Steampunk / Sep 21 2011 / 75 posts

A Velominatus is never to judge a book by its cover; appearances and predispositions are quickly cast aside at the discovery of a diamond in the rough. After all, the pursuit of perfection necessarily requires that we are a breed who turn over the last stone in search of it, even when all hope has long since been lost. But the gems to be found when...
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