Velominati Super Prestige: Milano-Sanremo 2015
Le Primavera has arrived. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 2015 Velominati Super Prestige. It’s been a long quiet winter of very little cycling news,…
Velominati Super Prestige: Women’s Omloop Het Volk (Nieuwsblad) 2015
I don’t know what it is about Belgian Race organizers, but I love those guys. Routes? The longer the better, please. The climbs? The steeper the…
Velominati Super Prestige: Mens Omloop Het Volk (Nieuwsblad) 2015
The real Velominati VSP will not begin until La Primavera. Het Volk will be a one-off warm up for the big show, no points, just…
Velominati Super Prestige: Chrono Des Nations Féminin 2014
I have an idea. If Mr Cookson and the UCI are eager to lift women’s cycling up, why not sponsor a women’s race for each…
Velominati Super Prestige: Paris-Tours 2014
Attention, this is the final event on the Men’s VSP calendar for 2014. There is one more Women’s event to come. We may already have…
Velominati Super Prestige: Giro di Lombardia 2014
I’m getting too old and cranky for all this race schedule changing. I know they already did this last year and presumably I had the…
Velominati Super Prestige: The Men’s Elite Road Race
You can only spend so much time with the Schlecks before you start talking like them, and the fabulous Fabs seems to have crossed the…
Velominati Super Prestige: The Women’s Elite Road Race 2014
This is big. This is the race that decides the arc-en-ciel jersey for the next year. It is the best looking jersey. It carries the…
Velominati Super Prestige: Men’s Elite Individual Time Trial 2014
If Tony gets a flat or two and loses this time trial, bookies will be jumping off bridges into the Thames. It’s a lock, man,…
Velominati Super Prestige: Women’s Elite Individual Time Trial 2014
All hail, the Worlds are upon us. The time trials should be events where all VSP participants can rack up some decent points. Remove team…
Velominati Super Prestige: GP de Plouay-Bretagne 2014
First run in 2002, the GP de Plouay-Bretagne is part of the women’s UCI World Cup series. It’s 4.5 laps totaling 121km. As usual, there is…
Velominati Super Prestige: Vuelta a España 2014
Did everyone got tired of seeing a nearly naked Marcel Kittel on the massage table for the Tour’s VSP page? I know I didn’t. Young Kennaugh will be sporting…
Velominati Super Prestige: Clasica Ciclista San Sebastian 2014
The race of the funny hat. Every team seems to have included one or two riders fresh off the Tour. One would either feel ruined…
Velominati Super Prestige: La Course 2014
It has been many years (25!) since professional female cyclists have raced on the cobbles of the Champs Elysées. While running the Giro Donne concurrently…
Velominati Super Prestige: Tour de France 2014
Attention all Velominati. The Tour VSP is going on line and it should be a good one. Sure, between Froomy and Bertie a person could…
Velominati Super Prestige: Giro Rosa 2014
Why are women’s races run concurrently with men’s races? I would get it if it was the women’s Tour de France, but I don’t get…
Velominati Super Prestige: Tour de Suisse 2014
The Tour de Suisse can be everyone’s warm-up for the Tour de France, including all you VSP dreamers. The big show seems to be the…
Velominati Super Prestige: Giro d’Italia 2014
For the simple reason that the Cobbled and Ardennes Classics are behind us, I have not alternative but to get back on my soap box about the…
Velominati Super Prestige: Liége-Bastogne-Liége 2014
The 100th running of Liége-Bastogne-Liége takes place this Sunday. Danny-boy Martin will be marked heavily as the defending champion. Malmerde, and Phil Gil have shown they…
Velominati Super Prestige: La Fleche Wallone 2014
Midweek in Belgium in Spring is a wonderful thing. Hordes of people come from seemingly nowhere to fill the bars and line the roadsides when…