Phobias
I’m not too proud to admit to having multiple phobias against various things. That’s phobia multiplicity. Having a phobia against something is very simliar to…
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William Fotheringham: Racing Hard
It’s not a secret around these parts that William Fotheringham is my favorite Cycling journalist. Growing up as a budding Velominatus in the isolated island…
Festum Prophetae: The Impossible Hour
Update: You can watch the live stream (assuming it works from the velodrome) on the Velominati channel at USTREAM. When you log in, you’ll first…
La Fleur de V
We have the kind of poor judgement that allows us to have a puppy. She’s half pit, half something, and half something else and boasts a lilliputian-sized head.…
La Vie Velominatus: The Sound of Silence
In most situations, silence is an ominous thing that signals impending doom. Having never been in any danger myself, I base this largely on my experience watching box-office…
Dirty Romantics
We’re into day three of the Six Days of the Giro series, and it’s time to hit the dirt. If ever a Keepers Tour goes…
Self-Chosen: Il Pirata & Il Giro
We continue our Six Days of the Giro series with a look at the troubled bond between Marco Pantani and the Giro. Some were meant…
The Weight of a Moniker
Young riders rise through the ranks with such promise. We all know the story; the rider who borrows a bicycle and enters a local race…
Guest Article: Bernard Hinault’s 1980 Liege-Bastogne-Liege
Unfortunately the weather for 2013 L-B-L looks a lot nicer than the 1980 episode. Then again, if the weather looked that bad, they might have…
Keepers Tour: Eat Properly
During last year’s Keepers Tour, the motor was fine for about two or three days until it suddenly sputtered and shut down completely on Wednesday.…
Cobbled Classics 2013 Forecast: Hardman’s Valmanac
As many of you know, one of my specialties is examining events, imagining trends in them, and then predicting future events by painting with broad…
Sur La Plaque: Café Roubaix Haleakala Climbing Wheels
I’m not going to lie to you, friction is an asshole. In the bottom bracket, in the bending of every single link in your chain…
Anatomy of a Photo: Campagnolo Candy Van
Every night I pray to Merckx that in the morning when I wake up I’ll have a Campagnolo Free Candy Van with a Super Dome.…
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…
The Phoenix
As a dyed-in-the-wool Northerner, my time living in the South was a mixed bag. Southerners think differently, speak differently, eat differently, and prioritize life differently…
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Look Pro: The Hunchbacks of Notre V
The flat back position is perhaps the greatest lie ever told in sport, provided you ignore any of the racing we’ve seen in the last…
In Memoriam: The Proper Head Badge
The days of the proper head badge, I’m afraid, are numbered. It seems it used to be that any road bike with a pedigree that…
The Eye of Sauron
Aside from wheels staying in one piece and the frame holding together, the thing we take most for granted when riding a bike is how…
Anatomy of a Photo: Casually Deliberate Masterclass
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but I’d need a thousand just to describe the carefully disheveled cap placement. I’d need another grand just…
The Thin Boundary Between Casual and Deliberate
Cycling and crashing are the kinds of things that come together whenever you liberally combine Newtonian Physics, skill, and overconfidence. In other words, I’ve been falling…