Velominati Super Prestige: Women’s Road Championship 2012
It seems like just weeks ago that Cav won his rainbow stripes, things were said, umbrage was taken. Luckily we have found more umbrage so we…
Velominati Super Prestige: Grand Prix Cycliste de Montreal 2012
Ok, as some of you have been reminding us, this one slipped off the radar last year, and threatened to do the same again this…
Velominati Super Prestige: Vuelta a España 2012
One of the loveliest things about the Grand Tours is that you get a feel, by the nature of the route, of the country’s landscape…
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Velominati Super Prestige: Women’s Olympic Road Race 2012
What a difference four years can make. In Beijing, Nicole Cooke was the dominant rider in Women’s Cycling, taking wins in every important race on the…
Velominati Super Prestige: Men’s Olympic Road Race 2012
You can all wave “goodbye” to your Post GT Depression Syndrome, because the Men’s Olympic Road Race is only three days yonder. I don’t typically…
Velominati Super Prestige: Tour de France 2012, Stage 16
Which bold rider has this stage circled in their tour bible? Wednesday July 18th, Stage 16, 197 km. The day after a the final rest…
Velominati Super Prestige: Tour de France 2012, Stage 11
During the 1969 Tour de France, Felice Gimondi and Ray Poulidor were fined for taking a ride from a lorry up the Tourmalet. What about…
Velominati Super Prestige: Tour de France 2012
We are proud to announce a change to the Velominati Super Prestige moving forward: sponsorship. We are delighted (if a little surprised) at the interest our…
Velominati Super Prestige: Giro d’Italia Internazionale Femminile 2012
It seems a disservice to start the Women’s Giro right before the Tour de France. Even at Velominati’s main bunker HQ, the new TdF VSP…
Velominati Super Prestige: Tour de Suisse 2012
This is an exciting time of year. The Giro is in the books, the Tour is firmly in everyone’s sights, and those of us with…
Velominati Super Prestige: Giro d’Italia 2012 Stage 20
See that huge mountain over there? The one with the steep, twisty road going up it? The one that is often covered in snow this time…
Velominati Super Prestige: Giro d’Italia 2012
After a winter of long training rides that offered more in the way of numb extremities than it did in acute enjoyment, I have to say that the…
Velominati Super Prestige: Luik-Bastenaken-Luik 2012
I thought I’d take this opportunity to move en danseuse on Rule 89 and to refer to Liege-Bastogne-Liege by its less-common Flemish name. It also…
Velominati Super Prestige: Fléche Wallonne Femmes 2012
During the Ronde von Vlaanderen, we of the 2012 Keeper’s Spring Classic Tour were right on the Oude Kwaremont climb as the women big-ringed it…
Velominati Super Prestige: La Fleche Wallonne 2012
I just had to use this pic of Tom Simpson in 1965 wearing the Peugeot kit as the title pic for this year’s VSP for…
Velominati Super Prestige: Amstel Gold Race 2012
When people think of the The Netherlands, they generally think of flat lands, windmills, and a topography where people claim to “live at elevation” when their…
Velominati Super Prestige: Paris-Roubaix 2012
We rode the Pavé of Roubaix in the dry, and any comforting feelings we might have been carrying about with us that suggested we had…
Velominati Super Prestige: Ronde van Vlaanderen 2012
The Keepers and Rigid rolled into a region in France called Flandres which, without doing any further research into the matter, we assume is the…
Velominati Super Prestige: Women’s Ronde van Vlaanderen 2012
The Velominati Super-Prestige continues with our second Women’s event of 2012, the Women’s Ronde van Vlaanderen. This one is made even more exciting for me…
Velominati Super Prestige: Gent-Wevelgem 2012
Gent conjures up images of the quintessential Flemish city. Age-old medieval architecture rising from the river’s edge is classically Belgian. Gent is also firmly tied…