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…
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General
V-nnouncements: Summer V-Kit Order and The Apostle Worlds
As I gaze across my living room and see the final packages of the Spring Order’s V-Kit ready for shipment, I’m reminded that the time…
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Racing
Zoo Hill Time Trial: Triple Dip into the Pain Pool
You can’t teach an old dog new tricks but you can grab a beer and watch that old dog do the same stupid thing over…
Evanescent Riders Of The 90s: Bjarne Riis
I know what you’re thinking. How can one label Bjarne Riis an Evanescent Rider? He was a champion, he won the Tour, and went on…
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Racing
The Team Car
With the Tour underway there are many things to envy. One that always gets me is the team cars. This, to me, is the ultimate…
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Awards
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…
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…
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Racing
Gianni’s Carbon Ball: Sir Twiggo
The glow from the Giro is still visible, everything is still pink but I’m jumping ahead of all the Wilcocksons of the world with a…
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Racing
Ride Like a Leader: Ivan Basso
Everyone knows that things like “tactics” and “thinking” are for the weak. After all, if you’re strong enough, loud enough, and stubborn enough, you should…
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Racing
Rule 43: Don’t be a Jackass
Not being a jackass seems simple enough in spirit but can be difficult to operationalize. Waving to another cyclist because they are on a bike…
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…
Anatomy of a Photo: You Can Leave Your Hat On
Sometimes, when there’s a job to be done, you just don’t care what you look like. As with gardening, changing the oil or building that new…
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,…
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Folklore
Tubulars: Art, Science, and Ritual
As Keepers Tour crossed from dream to reality and routes over the cobblestones of Northern Europe were sketched out, with it came the familiar tingling…
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Look Pro
Ride Like a Girl: Meg Fisher
This is Meg. Keeper Jim and I found Meg spinning loops around Mercer Island, big-ringing the rollers in the pouring rain. Meg likes sunsets, puppies, and had…
Ride Like a Girl: Marianne Vos
While it took seven Belgians to dominate the Men’s Cyclocross World Championship race on Sunday, it only took a single Dutchwoman to dominate the women’s…
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Awards
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,…