Guest Article: Ride Like a Rock Star
Yes, this makes three Guest Articles in three weeks, but we run the show around here and we do what we want. Especially when it comes…
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Guest Article: Joaquim Agostinho
Who learns of their cycling potential while in the military, serving in Africa? @wiscot is once again serving up some great cycling history in his…
Guest Article: On VMG
I hate to distract from Marko’s defense of his POC helmet and shades photo but @snowgeek is weaving cycling and sailing together here. It may…
Guest Article: Proposed New Rule #96, the Marcellus Rule
This note arrived to the Velominati Bunker back in April. It was a confession. It was a cautionary one. Everyone knows someone who has done…
Guest Article: Willem’s Experience
This guest post was sent to us from Frank’s sister about her son Willem. When I read the post I was thinking Frank’s sister had…
Guest Article – Recovery Rides
I would have to start training to even do a recovery ride. And I would have to own a cyclometer, HRM, and the unavoidable watt…
Guest Article: On Suffering
What, another guest post? Seemingly yes, but in fact we are keeping to our every-other Friday guest post schedule. We must Keep The Schedule! @Harminator’s…
Guest Article: Follow the Pigs
@Harminator just submitted this little gem of a tale. It is too timely not to share with Paris-Roubaix looming. VLVV, Gianni I imagine that some…
Guest Article: In V We Trust
One of greatest cycling pleasures is riding with a mate. Riding ten centimeters off each other’s rear wheel for hours; trust is a beautiful thing.…
Guest Article: The Butler
For many Americans, their first ten speed bike was a Schwinn. It was heavy. Everything about it was heavy. It was the bike that was…
Guest Article: BC – Before Cancellara
@wiscot is at it again. He is the Velominati historian and I’m always pleased when more of his writing arrives at the bunker. Luckily for…
Guest Article: All the Bikes in my Life Have Come from my Father
Lucky is the cyclist who has a parent cyclist. Early mentoring about the pain cave, guidance gluing on tires, these are worthwhile lessons a parent…
Guest Article: Along for the Ride
ChrisO is back with another installment of Suffering in the Desert. Enjoy. VLVV, Gianni A year after my first stage race I’m doing it again.…
Guest Article: Rule #9 Festivus
One of the finest things about Velominati is it attracts the crazy bastards. Cyclists are slightly unhinged anyway but there are more than a few…
Guest Article: Breaking the Rules- A Note on Rule #50
I have no dog in this fight but @Henrik does. I can’t swim in the serious ‘stache growing gene pool. And yes, it’s already Vajanuary,…
Guest Article: Coming Back
Up here in the Northern Hemisphere, this off-season is the time for rest and repair. The body and bikes need some extra refurbishment. It’s fun…
Guest Article: The Line
While the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, for us road cyclists it is usually not the fastest. @RobsMuir ponders this while riding…
Guest Article: “The Journey Is The Thing”- Homer
Yvon Chounard may not be Homer but he is a worthy modern day wise man, he admonished, don’t be a sports nazi. His meaning was, don’t…
Guest Article: The Prodigal RB-1
Pineapple Bob? @cyclops goes deep with this reference. Pineapple Bob was a mystical figure in American cycling. He was not known as a racer, more…
Cogal Report: The Seattle Summer Cogal 2013: The V-to-V Stage Cogal
Yes, we got piss drunk after the 2012 Seattle Summer Cogal and dreamed up the V-to-V Stage Cogal: epic riding, vertical, a real challenge. It…