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…
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Il Progetto: The Bozzie Is Single
Let’s talk about bikes. Yeah, bikes are good. After all, they are “the central tool to our craft.” They are the reason we became Velominati,…
Voices and Echoes
Doubt. It speaks in whispered tones but echoes in our actions and lingers heavy on the mind. It is a thing that weaves itself into…
One-Eyed Wonder: CX-V
What I have always loved about Mountain Biking is the immersion into the woods; the sense of solitude that comes in the wilderness that is…
Does a Bike Have a Soul?
Does a bike have a soul? I can’t make that argument, I don’t think I do either, actually. But we do invest a lot of…
La Bicyclette, Part II: Scars
We meticulously care for our bicycle, stopping only just short of pampering it. Through ages spend coveting, building, and riding it, we become attached to…
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…
La Bicyclette
I love the shape of it. Aroma of it. The way it feels to be around it. It will catch my eye from across the way;…
Il Progetto: Nederaap CX-V
Building a frame has been, since childhood, a dream which always seemed a little bit out of reach. Aside from not being sure how not…
A New Decade
A new decade is here. Not the one that started Jan 1st, but the one marked by my new bike. By habit, this bike will…
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Il Profeta Progetto
Mates are supposed to be just that; mates. They are meant to be supportive, to help you out when you need them, to make your…
Guest Article: The Apple of Cyclops’ Eye
Has anyone heard? Jeff in PetroMetro has a Look. So does Marcus. So does Ron, and probably some others who haven't told us (over and…
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Ill Pro-ghetto: IT lives…
There's not too much you can buy with $8 these days. A coffee and cake. A tube. Maybe a trashy tabloid magazine (certainly not the…
Evolution of a Plan, Part II: Record Hubs
Before my dad bought his C-Record Merckx in the late 80's, the family stable consisted of mostly Shimano bits, with a light smattering of Suntour.…
Evolution of a Plan: Bianchi TSX
It wasn't created from nothing by the concentrated will of an obsessive Velominatus, nor by the grace of Merckx out of pure ether. No, as…
Guest Article: Jeff in PetroMetro’s Look 595
Not only do most of us have a tale of our Cycling Sensei, but we also generally have a story for how we came into…
Guest Article: Ron’s Tommasini
In our first installment of reader-submitted The Bikes articles, we bring you this drool-worthy Tommasini, fully equipped with Delta brakes, classic-bend bars, a Regal saddle, and three-cross…
Revenge of the Clones
How a Keeper's #1 bike came to be.
We Were Young and Totally Rad
It's been an interesting week in the Velominati Archives of Awesomeness, after a freak discovery of boxes containing “photographs”. After conducting some research, we've come…
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Il Progetto e Finito
While I've been riding Il Progetto Originale for a month or so now, the finishing touches were still being waited on, either being sought out…