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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…
Velominati Super Prestige
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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…
Anatomy of a Photo: Cornering on Cobbles
A lot of things taken for granted in Cycling go swiftly out the window when cobblestones are introduced to bicycle and rider. The notion that…
Changer de Braquet
Some people are supremely good at it, reducing complex situations into matters of simple black and white. This isn’t my particular area of expertise; 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…
Having Good Legs
One great mystery remains in this cycling world. I’ve been a cyclist for over thirty years and I still can’t buy a clue. Remember those…
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…
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Spitting Image
When I was but a young Velominatus, my poor mother was often horrified/embarrassed/disgusted by my typical boy’s habit of sucking back the mucous from the…
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…
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Look Pro(phetic): Muck Around with Your Seatpost
I have a friend who is borderline OCD. He’ll sometimes wash his hands dozens of times a day, doesn’t like sticky stuff, cats drive him…
Guest Article: Get it together
It is my great pleasure to introduce this guest article, penned by my long time friend @Rob. I’ve know the lad since we were both…
A Study in Casually Deliberate: Wait Properly
We spend a small enormity of time waiting. We wait for lights to turn green. We wait for riders to arrive to the ride. We…
The Paradox of Maturity
Although we find our way to the bicycle by different path, we all share the fact that at some point, this simple and elegant machine…
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Look Pro, Part III: Meditate on The V
In the interest of full disclosure, I feel it is my responsibility to warn you that this article might accidentally make you a better cyclist. Even though…
Anti-V Moment of the Year: Chaingate
It is a telling sign of the state of our sport that picking the Anit-V moment of the year was a more difficult task than…
The Rhythm of the Stones
This picture makes me think, “There’s a right way to ride the cobbles, and a wrong way.” Those riders who have raced on the cobbles…
Know Your Limitations
I always strongly consider observations from anyone willing to wave a 44 Magnum in people’s faces. As such, I’ve always appreciated Dirty Harry‘s recommendation that a…
Reverence: The Double Shift
There was a time when shifting was an art. Friction down-tube shifters required a finess and a light touch of the fingers; a slight overshift…
Le Mecanicien
Each of us remembers how they became a Velominatus. For me, it was at Grimpeur Wielersport, in Zevenaar, The Netherlands. Its the perfect place: a…
Tape-O-Philia*
Nothing says "amateur" more than an imperfect handlebar tape job. A review of Specialized S-Works Handle bar tape