Belgian Affirmations

Raining in My Heart

Not one to subscribe to the slew of text speak or acronyms that permeate the modern vernacular (well, not too…

10 years ago

LeMaster of the V-Locus

Finding The V-Locus is something of an extension of the Goldilocks Principle; bars set somewhere between Sit Up and Beg…

10 years ago

Winter Training

Merckx famously professed that after a night of sinning, the body must be cleansed. He obviously meant this figuratively, not…

11 years ago

Made By Hand

It wasn't so long ago that the majority of bicycles were made by hand, from raw materials, in places that…

11 years ago

Anatomy of a Graveur

I am a road cyclist, at heart. Even when I'm in a car, I'll daydream about riding the same road…

11 years ago

Look Pro: The Flemish Compact

Everyone knows that the quality of one's character is measured by the size gear they can push, particularly when going…

11 years ago

Cold Fact

Wellington isn't renown for its great summers; a mate is always quick to remind me that if the weather was…

11 years ago

Velominati Super Prestige: Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 2013

Outside my window, its pouring rain. My bike is leaning agains the wall in my office, covered in grim and…

11 years ago

The Phoenix

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

11 years ago

Reverence: Malteni

Cyclists can (and usually do) go on for hours as to why they ride their bikes, and most of their…

11 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.…

11 years ago

Belgian Affirmations: Beer And Bloating On The Koppenberg

The memories still foment in my mind. They don't keep me up at night, but they are there, hidden in…

12 years ago

Peter Van Petegem: A Lesson in Rule #9

Rule 9-Fair-weather riding is a luxury reserved for Sunday afternoons and wide boulevards. Those who ride in foul weather -…

12 years ago

Keepers Tour 2012 Update, Part 4: A Ronde Ride and Paris-Roubaix

With Keepers Tour: Cobbled Classics 2012 stitched up and in the history books, the challenge of documenting the trip became…

12 years ago

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

With Keepers Tour: Cobbled Classics 2012 stitched up and in the history books, the challenge of documenting the trip became…

12 years ago

Ride Like a Girl: Marianne Vos

While it took seven Belgians to dominate the Men's Cyclocross World Championship race on Sunday, it only took a single…

12 years ago

Belgian Affirmations: Kapelmuur

There isn't a lot about a climb several kilometers long ending in a sustained 20% cobbled gradient that communicates 'Attack'…

12 years ago

Belgian Affirmations: Andrei Tchmil

Andrei Tchmil got so tired of the palpable disappointment of not being Belgian that he decided to become one. Envision…

12 years ago