Where Have You Been All My Life?
Life is full of surprises. Some you don’t want, like a funnel web in a shoe, while others are completely unexpected but more than welcome,…
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The Goalden Fleece
Happy living in our stressful lives is all about organization. For instance, I like to sort the tasks first by priority and then group tasks of…
The Cleansing
After a night of sinning, the body must be cleansed. -The Prophet, Eddy Merckx After a week away in Atlanta for business, I feel thick and…
Freedom
Choice, or the perception of it, is one of the most powerful forces on Earth. The great secret lies in the locus of control, which suggests that…
Reassessment
Maybe it’s the milestone of aging that I recently reached. It could be an awareness of the unique foibles of this sport/activity/pastime that I practice.…
The Curse of Four Millimeters
I don’t know how a guy who shows off the better part of a half meter of seat post comes to the conclusion that his…
The Fire and the Moth
In my journey through life, I’ve been struck by the near universal existence of the competitive spirit amongst people. Even people who claim not to…
Anatomy Of A Photo: Point And Shoot
“You ruined a heap of photos!” Not the words you want to hear when the photos in question are ones you didn’t shoot, but were…
Getting Dropped
I can can feel his cold breath on my back, like a shadow drifting through an alleyway. He’s not yet upon me, but the Man…
Something Beautiful
Despite the proclivity towards being all-knowing that comes as a consequence of my being Dutch, the most beautiful things in life are discoveries that come…
The Rules Goes on the Road-NYC
Here are a few lessons learned while in New York City. I’m sure leaving a bar at one o’clock in the morning is not how…
Speed
I wasn’t anywhere near old enough to hold a driver’s license but my dad had already bought me a motorcycle. It was a late seventies…
Raining in My Heart
Not one to subscribe to the slew of text speak or acronyms that permeate the modern vernacular (well, not too much, I guess YJA is…
The Thin Black Line
Every time we get on our bikes, we are playing a game of Russian Roulette. We take care to maintain our machines, to make sure…
Les Choix
I’ve never been able to decide if choices are a gift or a curse; a lack of choices introduces simplicity but also with it the…
V
Awards
The 2013 V-Moment of the Year
2013 was The Year of the Anti-V. In every other year, the Velominati Cogclave to decide the V and The Anit-V awards is full of…
The Legend of @Dan_R and Café Roubaix
Although he was already an active community member, I began my friendship with Dan Richter in early 2012 after he reached out to me regarding…
From Café To Roubaix
Assuming you ride somewhere outside the borders of Antarctica, you have likely already heard about the injustice being imposed on our friend and fellow Velominatus,…
The Elements
Water is an asshole, at least when it comes to bicycles. So is wind, now that I think of it; I don’t love it, unless…
Asthmatics
Having asthma is kind of like winning the lottery, except it happens to more people and instead of money you win a chronic difficulty in…