Route Finding
I have memories of my life before Cycling, but as the years wear slowly on my mind their edges become less pronounced, like water wearing…
Velominati Super Prestige
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Guest Article: Black Is Not The New Black
@kogalover is singing my song here. Bikes are beautiful. ’nuff said. VLVV, Gianni With all those posts on riding in winter and being visible, either…
Guest Article: An Open Letter
Dear readers, let us take a break from the almighty Tour for a few minutes. I am the least qualified Velominatus to introduce an open…
The Graceful Touch of La Volupté
I get to certain parts of my training when I begin to crave his blows, especially in winter. Winter is the time of year when…
Weight Weenies
My bike weighs about 6 kilos. It is no waify little thing either, with it having a 61cm frame and and three stories of seatpost. It has beefy…
Short But Sweet
My lungs feel my favorite way my lungs can feel. Every breath I take tells me the whereabouts of each alveolus. They feel raw, like they were scraped…
Cogal Report – 2015 CogAdelaide
Mikael’s view It seems that getting these Cogals off the ground is never without its challenges. Last year required a borrowed bike & 100k worth…
California Dreaming
I’m in California this week on a family trip, from which I stole a morning and did the classic ride up and around the Marin…
Guest Article: Zen and Getting Your Ass Beat
This is the kind of guest article I love. It is also the first proper report of the 2014 Heck to reach the Velominati bunker.…
Guest Article: The 3rd Hour
Many of us cyclist don’t go out on the bike for under an hour, at a minimum. What’s the point? It is barely a ride…
Guest Article: Liberty, Egality, Fraternity
I was asking earlier, how do you know if you are a cyclist? One sure sign is when one brings a bike on almost all…
Guest Article- An Invitation to Suffer: The Rapha Manchester to London Challenge
I have met @chris on the original Keepers Tour. He seemed like a reasonable person at the time. Then again, @rob passes himself off as…
Urban Riding: The Sanctity of the Bike Lane
There was a time when the world was painted in hues of black and white. Right and Wrong were separated by lines painted in such…
Ride Report: SFO Book Signing
Last week we completed the second stop in the tour for our book, The Rules; The Way of the Cycling Disciple. For the first two, we…
Getting Dropped
I can can feel his cold breath on my back, like a shadow drifting through an alleyway. He’s not yet upon me, but the Man…
Speed
I wasn’t anywhere near old enough to hold a driver’s license but my dad had already bought me a motorcycle. It was a late seventies…
Le Mont Ventoux: The Windy Mountain
Legends are central to any culture, ours perhaps more than most. The Ventoux is a French legend, rising 1912m above the rolling hills of Provence.…
Full Circle: The ‘Evolution’ of Mountain Biking
Think back to the early days of mountain biking. A bunch of friends, getting to the top of the hill any way they could, not…
Theatres Of Dreams
The home ground of Manchester United Football Club, Old Trafford, is colloquially known around the world as the Theatre of Dreams. It holds a revered…
The Elasticity of Time: The Hour
The Theory of Special Relativity states that time for a moving object passes more quickly than for a stationary object. Einstein, in deriving this theory, demonstrated…