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Look Pro: En Danseuse

by frank / Aug 3 2012 / 84 posts

Clad in skin-tight clothes and cleated shoes, we walk with all the grace of a chicken with a repetitive stress injury. Yet once astride our machines, hovering above the tarmac and enraptured by the sensation of flight, we are transformed into a picture of Fluidly Harmonic Articulation which belies the power and skill that drives us forward. Years...

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: The Goldilocks Principle

by frank / Apr 25 2012 / 144 posts

The Rules are about cultivating a passion for riding our bikes to gain the maximum enjoyment possible. This requires humility, for one thing, and devotion, for another. It requires a balance between focusing on progress and enjoying the journey. It demands a reverence for our history paired with a hunger for evolution. The Rules teach us balance, t...

Tubulars: Art, Science, and Ritual

by frank / Mar 21 2012 / 108 posts

As Keepers Tour crossed from dream to reality and routes over the cobblestones of Northern Europe were sketched out, with it came the familiar tingling in my fingertips and uneasy sensation at the base of my spine as my mind starts its irrevocable journey towards categorizing as mandatory an unnecessary indulgence. I was going to need a wheelse...

Ride Like a Girl: Meg Fisher

by frank / Mar 12 2012 / 103 posts

This is Meg. Keeper Jim and I found Meg spinning loops around Mercer Island, big-ringing the rollers in the pouring rain. Meg likes sunsets, puppies, and had a gerbil named Fränk. Meg doesn’t need bad weather to be considered a badass; Meg rides her bike with one leg, so riding in the rain is hardly a blip on the Badass Radar.Meg Fisher is...

Look Pro(phetic): Muck Around with Your Seatpost

by brett / Feb 19 2012 / 148 posts

I have a friend who is borderline OCD. He’ll sometimes wash his hands dozens of times a day, doesn’t like sticky stuff, cats drive him to antihistamine hell and there is a place for everything, with everything in its place. This can be annoying, not only for those around him, but especially for himself. It’s not a great place to b...

Look Pro: Souplesse

by frank / Feb 15 2012 / 232 posts

Souplesse. Only the French would have such a word; one you can sink your teeth into, chew on. It begs to be spoken over a plate of assorted cheeses and a bottle of vin rouge. Its exact definition is unimportant; such things conjure up an image in our minds that is cheapened by words. Souplesse is the ideal, sought by all and obtained only by The F...

Portland Cogal v1.1 Post Ride Report

by scaler911 / Feb 8 2012 / 64 posts

“My teeth are famous!” exclaimed Fränk while Mrs. Scaler was running around with her shiny new camera, documenting the day. This happened quite a few post ride hoppy beverages into the evening after the Portland Cogal.But let me back up a bit. As most here know, Saturday was the first Velominati Portland Cogal. From the proper VM we had myself...

La Vie Velominatus: The Toolkit

by frank / Feb 3 2012 / 209 posts

Even as a Pre-Cambrian Velominatus, the rusty wires in my brain must have made the connection between my machine’s aesthetics and the lack of a saddle bag; I can’t remember a time when I rode with a European Posterior Man Satchel. But riding without a saddle bag means the tools go in the pocket, and that means great care must be take...

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...

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Book Reviews: Racing Through the Dark, The Secret Race

by Gianni / Sep 28 2012 / 607 posts

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by frank / Jun 5 2013 / 513 posts

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by frank / Dec 7 2011 / 480 posts

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by frank / May 16 2012 / 478 posts

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by frank / Mar 25 2012 / 435 posts

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by Jeff in Big D / Aug 2 2011 / 361 posts

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Self-Chosen: Il Pirata & Il Giro

by frank / May 6 2013 / 151 posts

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Anatomy Of A Photo: The Gents Of Wevelgem

by brett / Mar 4 2013 / 73 posts

If you ever doubted for a minute that the hardmen of yore drafted the blueprint for The Rules, you…

VSP: Giro d’Italia, Stage 20

by frank / May 27 2011 / 67 posts

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Evolution of a Plan: Bianchi TSX

by frank / Apr 4 2011 / 106 posts

It wasn’t created from nothing by the concentrated will of an obsessive Velominatus, nor by th…

The Phoenix

by frank / Feb 4 2013 / 67 posts

As a dyed-in-the-wool Northerner, my time living in the South was a mixed bag. Southerners think dif…

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 docu…

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