Guest Article: Where the Hell are all the Velominata Hiding?
It is October, the last VSP of the season is up, there is still some race in China no one cares about. The road racing…
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Guest Article: I’ve Fallen for You
What does this have to do with the Worlds? Nothing, but it makes me laugh and includes a wicked photograph so this is the guest…
Guest Article: Bikes Smell Awesome Too.
@snoov moves the topic away from Lance, doping, EPMS, and Berty’s Spanish adventures. Our brains are so crammed with nonsense our childhood memories get jammed…
Guest Article: Why Does Bradley Wear His Polo Shirt Like That?
Bradley Wiggins; have we seen too much of him now? The answer to that would be yes, unless you are British. Thank god the British…
Guest Article: Velo Love
Even Wiggo said it’s just a bike race. Bike racing may be just that but Cycling is life. And Love is life and it’s amazing…
Listen to your body – Sensations from l’Alpe d’huez
When we announced Keepers Tour 2012, one of the first to put up his hand and pony up for the Cobbled Classics experience was my…
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Guest Article: Ride 542 – the Mt. Baker Hill Climb
@eightzero is throwing down the sweaty gauntlet here. He has a vision of a V-kitted, Rule compliant freight train of pain. Normally this post would…
Guest Article: Anatomy of a Photo – The Perfect Personification of Rule #5
We are lucky to have @wiscot as a contributor of guest articles. He eschews the carbon ball for real research and his love of cycling…
Guest Article: Giro d’Italia in Denmark
Morten Okbo joins us on the second rest day of il Giro (even though it really feels like only the first rest day) to tell…
Guest Article: Rule VI – Racing to Recover
It is my great pleasure to bring @Dan_R’s article to the Velominati. Frank has recently written about cycling as an addiction. It’s a “good” addiction…
Guest Article: The Fine Art of Pedaling
Keeper Jim and I came across Meg Fisher during an icy-rain Rule 9 training ride on Mercer Island in March. The first thing that struck us…
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…
Guest Article: My Journey from Milano to Sanremo
While the rest of us where bickering over the style in which the finale of one of the most exciting editions of Milano-Sanremo played out,…
Guest Article: Anti-Reverence? The Spin Bike.
Our balaclava wearing friend, @Oracle, submitted this winter reflection on the V. The article is a little ripe, but for many, spring is still a…
Guest Article: Amy’s Century…
One couldn’t get much further from Shropshire, England than Adelaide, South Australia (in more ways than just lat-long) and yet here is another Velominatus, shaving…
Guest Article: Edric’s Windy, Wet, Wild Wiggle
One of the cairns on the unknowable path to Cyclist is riding one’s first unimaginable distance. In the non-metric world it would be the first…
Guest Article: La Vie Velominatus-Transformation
The fear of crashing is there but we can’t let override our pleasure in cycling. @mblume writes of this and underplays his riding the Haute…
Guest Article: Anatomy of a Photo-1994 Paris-Roubaix
Duck and cover! Our guest article series rolls on with @scaler911’s Anatomy of a Photo. Photo, words, enough said. Yours in Cycling, Gianni — Ah,…
Guest Article: Rose tinted glasses
@wiscot’s article speaks of cyclists of our youths and Jan Raas made a big impression on the young Gianni. Do the Dutch have a harder…
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…