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V-Kit: Zwarte, Witte, Winter

by frank / Aug 29 2011 / 133 posts

When we designed The V-Kit in the winter of 2010, we thought we’d arrived at the ultimate Velominatus look. But, as it turns out, Spinal Tap Black isn’t for everyone. Apparently, not every climate is like that of the Pacific Northwest, where a heat advisory is issued when the mercury hits 30C (85F) and businesses close when it dips belo...

Updated V-Kit Ordering Process

by frank / May 3 2011 / 34 posts

If I was going to describe to you what our order management process for The V-Kit has been like, I might start by likening it to Communing with Butterflies, only with invoices. It’s been a highly manual process with invoices for deposits being assembled based on The Big Board, which was compiled by Gianni from the emails we get asking to get...

Guest Article: Reverence – Rule 33 For the Risk Averse

by sgt / Apr 28 2011 / 130 posts

We’re going to take advantage of our break in the Velominati Super Prestige to get a few articles out that have been sitting in the queue but haven’t had the opportunity to see the light of day due to the busy race schedule. Besides, we’ve spent the last two days bemoaning a couple skinny kids’ lack of tactical prowess and...

Technology Simplified: The V-Meter.

by brett / Dec 18 2010 / 40 posts

Training Properly clearly isn’t everyone’s bag, baby.  Heart rate, power, cadence; it’s all bollocks if you are being told to hold back, or are put into a place where you don’t want/aren’t supposed to be.  If it hurts, and you’re flying, it’s working.  If it hurts, and you’re crawling, it’s n...

The Meaning of the Word Respect: The Beartooth Challenge

by Joshua / Sep 3 2010 / 12 posts

This past weekend I learned a number of lessons here in my new home state of Montana. Or perhaps relearned these lessons—lessons of my own mortality; of my fragility; of my limitations. Full of hubris and vigor I entered the 2010 Beartooth Challenge, an 8.2 mile uphill run over 2,500 vertical feet followed the next day by a grueling, ~33K, 4,50...

The Yellow Princesses

by Marko / Aug 23 2010 / 76 posts

The Velominati would not exist if it weren’t for The Rules. Of the current 79 Rules, only two, Rule #34 and Rule #69 stipulate anything about shoes. Perhaps that is all that is needed. However, I do have a set of personal Rules that I’ve been living by and developing for nearly ten years now. My own personal Rule #1 is No Red Sho...

Tour de Blast – 2010

by The Keepers / Jun 27 2010 / 41 posts

It never fails; the forecast five days out looks good and as the date gets closer the forecast gets less good looking. But since it didn’t actually say “near freezing cold continuous rain” we were not to be dissuaded. We wouldn’t have been anyway but might have brought more clothes.This was the first proper ride the U.S. based Velom...

Jaw Dropper: Velominati Jawbones

by frank / Jun 14 2010 / 26 posts

I’m the first to admit that we are probably over doing it on the Velominati Kit article thing. That being said, I simply have to put one more out there, which will double more-or-less as a product review.I previously wrote a piece on Radars and Jawbones wherein I asserted that Oakley Radars are the ideal cycling eye wear and the following a...

Flying the Velominati Kit on Hurricane Ridge

by frank / Jun 3 2010 / 15 posts

As you know, the first shipment of the Velominati kit arrived last week and the reception has been universally enthusiastic by the recipients (with the exception of Brett, who loves the look but is at least two months from peaking and too fat to climb).   Some of the most well-received details are the orange DutchMonkey cuffs on the sleeves an...

Velominati: You Must Obey

by frank / May 25 2010 / 65 posts

What motivates a Velominatus?  It seems a simple question, but the answer is complicated and gets into various issues that are neither interesting nor compelling.For me, cycling has been a life-long obsession.  I enjoy any kind of riding.  I enjoy technical, single-track mountain biking, I enjoy riding on dirt roads or wide trails.  I enjoy com...
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