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Gelukkig Sinterklaas

December 6th is possibly the biggest holiday of the year for the Dutch. We put out our shoe, we write…

13 years ago

Look Pro: The Hunchbacks of Notre V

The flat back position is perhaps the greatest lie ever told in sport, provided you ignore any of the racing…

13 years ago

Product Review: Bont Vaypor and Vaypor XC

I have weird feet, apparently. It's not really something you normally come to realize without asking questions that one rarely…

13 years ago

Anatomy of a Photo: V-Bank Line of Credit

Economics, in its most simple form, follows the Conservation of Mass as defined in physics. Basically, everything goes according to plan…

13 years ago

The Eye of Sauron

Aside from wheels staying in one piece and the frame holding together, the thing we take most for granted when…

13 years ago

Solitude

The task spreads out before me like molasses poured onto a tabletop, indulging in its viscous immensity. Its growing breadth makes it a…

13 years ago

Anatomy of a Photo: Casually Deliberate Masterclass

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but I'd need a thousand just to describe the carefully disheveled cap placement.…

13 years ago

La Vie Velominatus: Flemish Tan Lines

Clouds hang heavy in the sky, plump with a rain which contemplates the opportunity to hurl itself towards the Earth below.…

13 years ago

In Memoriam: Leather and Brass

Composites, microfibers, synthetics. They amaze in their qualities; light, strong, durable - unyieldingly stiff or unimaginably suple, depending on our whim. When…

13 years ago

The Thin Boundary Between Casual and Deliberate

Cycling and crashing are the kinds of things that come together whenever you liberally combine Newtonian Physics, skill, and overconfidence.…

13 years ago

In Memoriam: Fiorenzo Magni, December 7, 1920 – October 19, 2012

The Velominati mourn today the passing of Fiorenzo Magni, perhaps one of the Cycling world's greatest living example of the…

13 years ago

La Vie Velominatus: Clean Bike Day

It seemed so easy, when I was young, to decide who to love and who to hate. These days, life…

13 years ago

Anatomy of a Photo: Cornering on Cobbles

A lot of things taken for granted in Cycling go swiftly out the window when cobblestones are introduced to bicycle…

13 years ago

Changer de Braquet

Some people are supremely good at it, reducing complex situations into matters of simple black and white. This isn't my…

13 years ago

V-Announcements: The Way of the Cycling Disciple

We interrupt the current programming for the following announcement: The more clever among you might have noticed slight shiftings of…

13 years ago

La Vie Velominatus: Ritual

Along the lines of what Bruce Dickinson famously decreed while espousing the medical benefits of cowbell in the remedy of…

13 years ago

The Eternal Seconds: Heroes or Villians?

Joop Zoetemelk was a hard man, a tough nut to crack. He specialized in getting second place, a talent he…

13 years ago

La Ruota

Its hard to say precisely where the line lays, but I'm certain I'm well on the wrong side of it.…

13 years ago

Velominati Super Prestige: Mens World Championship Road Race 2012

I'm quite upset about it, actually, all this racing that's been going on in perfectly good weather. Vlaanderen, dry. Roubaix,…

13 years ago

One-Eyed Wonder: CX-V

What I have always loved about Mountain Biking is the immersion into the woods; the sense of solitude that comes…

13 years ago