Defining Moments: My First Kit
As children, none of us were given an allowance. Instead, we were taught from a young age that if we wanted to buy something, we…
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Velominati: Terrahist
PayPal has decided to classify Velominati as a “Terrorist Organization” because we accepted contributions last week from community members to support the fight against cancer…
La Vie Velominatus: Optimism
If I were a pessimist, or a realist for that matter, I wonder if I might have started any of the various activities which have…
La Bicyclette, Part II: Scars
We meticulously care for our bicycle, stopping only just short of pampering it. Through ages spend coveting, building, and riding it, we become attached to…
Into The Tunnel
It requires a combination of factors to intersect. You need to have already spent loads of time on a bicycle. Enough so that you have an…
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 – be it cold, wet, or…
Twistin Banged and Felled. And Got Back Up.
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…
La Vie Velominatus: Addiction
I feel it in my bones. I feel it in my breathing. I fixate on how much I feel it in my legs to the…
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 immediately obvious; how do you…
Keepers Tour 2012 Update, Part 2: The Lion Rides Today
With Keepers Tour: Cobbled Classics 2012 stitched up and in the history books, the challenge of documenting the trip became immediately obvious; how do you…
Keepers Tour 2012 Update, Part I: Roubaix & RVV
With Keepers Tour: Cobbled Classics 2012 stitched up and in the history books, the challenge of documenting the trip became immediately obvious; how do you…
Guest Article: The Most Beautiful Race in the World
Finally we can speak to this Paris-Roubaix mythology. The Keepers Tour group rode twenty-one sectors at something much slower than race speed. After the first…
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The 2011 Anti-V Moment of the Year: Paris Roubaix
While the The V Moment of the Year is the moment during the season when the sport demonstrated the most pure example of spirit of The V,…
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The 2011 V Moment of the Year: Paris Roubaix
The V Moment of the Year isn’t an award so much as acknowledgment of the moment during the season when the sport demonstrated the most…
Guest Article: Me, My Bike, and Irene
This week Velominati is publishing a selection of guest contributions. It shouldn’t be fun but it is, until it’s not. I’m talking Rule 9 here…
Darkness
Yesterday, Seattle was dark for 15 hours 34 minutes and 37 seconds. Let us not count how much it was light– it is of no…
On Rule #5: Not Minding That It Hurts
In my favorite scene from Lawrence of Arabia, T.E. Lawrence, after lighting a colleague’s cigarette, allows the match to burn down to his fingertips before snuffing it out.…
Friday Night Lights
Took my 2-yr-old son to the last of the Marymoor Velodrome summer series races tonight. He rode his tricycle up to watch from the top…
Who’s your Poppy?
You’d think that with such an historical event taking place in France overnight that the Australian newspapers would be a sea of yellow and ‘we…
Here Stands a Man: Johan Van Summeren
Here stands a man. A quiet man. A hard working man. A Belgian man. A man from a life of grit, cold, and rain. Here stands…