Velominati Super Prestige: Giro di Lombardia 2016
I turned forty last week. Nothing feels different except all my strength has gone, my memory sucks, and everything hurts now. That, and everything makes…
Velominati Super Prestige: Vuelta a España 2016
The Vuelta is my least favorite Grand Tour. I say this every year, I know. And every year, circumstances make it look an awful lot…
Velominati Super Prestige: Women’s Olympic Road Race 2016
In contrast to the Men’s race in 2012, the Women’s event was epic; torrential rains, an elite breakaway, a nail-biting sprint finish, and a finish…
Velominati Super Prestige: Men’s Olympic Road Race 2016
The Men’s Olympic Road Race, a race traditionally won by the biggest jerk in the bunch, usually after one of the coolest riders in the bunch…
Velominati Super Prestige: Clásica San Sebastián 2016
The VSP generator is still warm and sticky from all the ales we had to pour into it to keep it from overheating in Paris.…
Velominati Super Prestige: Tour de France 2016
A lot has happened in the last ten years of le Tour, and a lot of it stemmed from the race that took place in…
Velominati Super Prestige: Giro d’Italia Internazionale Femminile 2016
That is quite a name. And it is quite a race, no rest days, ten days of racing in Italy. This must be the biggest…
Velominati Super Prestige: Tour de Suisse 2016
We are opening the rolling metal door to the VSP generator and warming it up for this weekend’s start of the Tour de Suisse. As…
Velominati Super Prestige: Tour Of Chongming Island 2016
Ok, so we know you’re all excited about the Giro starting tonight, and poring over your picks and determining who is the best of a…
Velominati Super Prestige: Giro d’Italia 2016
Ladies and gentlemen, prepare for the Giro, 2016, starting in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands and finishing in Torino, Italy. Here is a provisional start list. The…
Velominati Super Prestige: Liege-Bastogne-Liege 2016
We were descending for a while before I saw Roche’s name painted on the road. It was one of those little bridges over a river…
Velominati Super Prestige: La Fleche Wallonne Femmes 2016
Nothing magical happened in between us publishing the Men’s event ten minutes ago that somehow brought us another day for the VSP. I was really…
Velominati Super Prestige: Men’s La Fleche Wallonne 2016
Don’t these race organizers understand how confusing it is when races are held mid-week? It means we have to have to manage against unrealistic expectations…
Velominati Super Prestige: Amstel Gold 2016
Ooooof! The VSP generator and operators need more than a week to recover from that race. Tommeke may never recover, that chance will never come…
Velominati Super Prestige: Paris-Roubaix 2016
Every time I’ve ridden the Roubaix pavé, I’ve peed the next few days like I got VD from some dirty cobble. That might not really…
Velominati Super Prestige: Men’s Ronde van Vlaanderen 2016
Everybody knows there are two kinds of cobbles. Big cobbles, little cobbles, grippy cobbles, and slippy cobbles. And when it comes to mastering the stones,…
Velominati Super Prestige: Women’s Ronde van Vlaanderen 2016
Has anyone checked the weather report for Sunday? Seriously. Have you checked? Wind. Rain. This. Is. Going. To. Be. EPIC. And you can all thank me…
Velominati Super Prestige: Gent – Wevelgem 2016
Deinze – Wevelgem really but Gent sounds correct, like Het Volk. Last year’s windy wet edition was a pretty awesome race except Luca Paolini won…
Velominati Super Prestige: Trofeo Alfredo Binda 2016
There are a couple things you need to know about the Women’s Racing Scene. First of all, they’ve been racing the fuck out of Belgium…
Velominati Super Prestige: Milano-Sanremo 2016
Milan Sanremo. I know we’ve been watching the men and women crush the cobbles already, and that’s the spiritual beginning of the season, but La Primavera…