Velominati Super Prestige: La Fleche Wallone Feminine 2014
Wednesday sees the return of the women to the VSP. More notably, we see the return of Marianne Vos to the road. She’s won this…
Velominati Super Prestige: Amstel Gold Race 2014
The Amstel Gold Race, 251 km from Maastricht to Valkenburg, the hard way. There appears to be no flat sections longer than ten meters. There…
Velominati Super Prestige: Paris-Roubaix 2014
It has been a brutal week for us Keepers, having decided not to hold a Keepers Tour this year. Watching the action from half a…
Velominati Super Prestige: Ronde van Vlaanderen 2014
This needs no introduction. The Spring Classics are truly upon us. The course has been modified yet again, it is tougher? The riders make the…
Velominati Super Prestige: VVomen’s Ronde van Vlaanderen 2014
Vlaanderen. Its no accident the Flemish word for Flanders starts with a V; there is nothing simple or easy about riding a bike here. If…
Velominati Super Prestige: Gent Wevelgem 2014
The Kemmelberg is a brute. In my opinion, its the hardest of the cobbled climbs in the Spring Classics; it has a high speed tarmac…
Velominati Super Prestige: Trofeo Alfredo Binda 2014
This is the kick off of the VSP for women’s racing, though the women have already kicked it off with the Ronde van Drenthe in…
Velominati Super Prestige: Milano Sanremo 2014
Het Volk (it will always be Het Volk to me) and now the Strade Bianche may well mark the sentimental beginning to the season, but…
Velominati Super Prestige: VVomen’s Chrono des Nations 2013
In the days of Anquetil, this was considered the most prestigious individual time trial on the calendar, and he made his name early by winning…
Velominati Super Prestige: Paris-Tours 2013
Oh brothers and sisters, we find ourselves here again. It was but a few moments ago when the Milan-Sanremo VSP went up. Racers fought the…
Velominati Super Prestige: Il Lombardia 2013
Il Lombardia, this is the race of the fallen leaves. This fall classic is a beautiful race in a beautiful region of Italy. The arduous…
Velominati Super Prestige: Men’s Elite Road Race 2013
The world championship road race stands out among all other one-day races as the one where the winner is awarded both a curse and a…
Velominati Super Prestige: Women’s Elite Road Race 2013
Where: Montecatini Terme to Firenze, Italy When: September 28 How: 140 km including 5 climbing laps in Firenze. It will most likely be gruppo compatto all…
Velominati Super Prestige: Elite Women’s World Championship ITT 2013
There is something about a time trial that lets you go spelunking in undiscovered caverns of The Cave. Contort your body into the sleekest position…
Velominati Super Prestige: Grand Prix de Plouay-Bretagne 2013
Brittany is the kind of area that produces strong-minded and strong-bodied people; I’m looking at you, Jacques Anquetil and Bernard Hinault. It produces this type of…
Velominati Super Prestige: La Vuelta a España 2013
Seriously. Is it almost September? This was not the agreement, this was supposed to be an endless summer. And all you A-Holes down there in the…
Velominati Super Prestige: Route de France Féminine 2013
Once again the metal grate is rolling up in front of the VSP lotto window. It’s bettin’ time. The Route de France is an eight…
Velominati Super Prestige: Le Tour de France 2013, Stage 19
Since it appears that the descents are where the action is in this year’s Tour de France, we thought we’d forgo our usual Mountain-Top Finish…
Velominati Super Prestige: Le Tour de France 2013
The early eighties saw the tide change in the European Peloton. Components were taking on a new, curvy shape as they left their boxy forms…
Velominati Super Prestige: Giro d’Italia Femminile Internazionale 2013
This is the women’s Giro and it just happens to take place in early July, bad timing or good timing, at least the Italians step…