V Day
Ah, February 14 is here again. A very special day for all of us. A day you don’t want to forget. A day when you…
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Training: The Fourth Bridge
Before the New Year, it was my ride up Haleakala. At present, it’s Keepers Tour: Cobbled Classics 2013. Before Haleakala, it was one of the…
Reverence: Malteni
Cyclists can (and usually do) go on for hours as to why they ride their bikes, and most of their reasons can sound, well, a…
On Rule #64: The Sudden Drop
The severity of a crash exists on two planes, the physical and psychological. The physical is the most obvious and one we busy ourselves with in…
Portrait of a Hardwoman: Nicole Cooke
Cycling is hard; I’m not leaking any trade secrets with that statement, but it feels good to say it anyway. No Cyclist avoids suffering, but…
La Vie Velominatus: Perched Eyewear
There is something supremely Fantastic about a precisely manicured set of sunglasses, particularly when they’re not being used for their intended purpose. Certainly, there are…
Frank vs. The Volcano: Part Trois
At some point, I reckon the idea may dawn on me that I’m not a climber. Eighty kilos and standing something just shy of two…
Solitude
The task spreads out before me like molasses poured onto a tabletop, indulging in its viscous immensity. Its growing breadth makes it a kind of enigma, the sort…
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. I get the sense that…
La Vie Velominatus: Clean Bike Day
It seemed so easy, when I was young, to decide who to love and who to hate. These days, life is a complicated web of…
La Vie Velominatus: Ritual
Along the lines of what Bruce Dickinson famously decreed while espousing the medical benefits of cowbell in the remedy of rare types of influenza, I…
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Climbing Weight
When it comes to weight and body dysmorphia, we cyclists can go toe-to-toe with any thirteen year old tween who has done their time flipping…
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Cogals
Cogal Report: The Alpine Ride
@936adl loves a Cogal and he didn’t mess around with this one. Later today the San Francisco Cogal report and next week the much awaited…
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…
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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…
La Vie Velominatus: The Rain Bike
In our privileged stables of bikes, it ranks towards the bottom of the heap as Bike #2 or lower, but the Rain Bike is no…
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…
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…
La Vie Velominatus: Survive On V
It’s a beautiful, yet cruel sport, this. It punishes you for being lazy, for being unfit, but it also punishes you when you are at…
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La Vie Velominatus: The Goldilocks Principle
The Rules are about cultivating a passion for riding our bikes to gain the maximum enjoyment possible. This requires humility, for one thing, and devotion,…