Keepers Tour 2012 Update, Part 4: A Ronde Ride and Paris-Roubaix
With Keepers Tour: Cobbled Classics 2012 stitched up and in the history books, the challenge of documenting the trip became immediately obvious; how do you…
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Fatigue
Those things in life that are worth having are those things which are difficult to come by; perseverance is made more rewarding by the volume…
Guest Article: Anti-Reverence? The Spin Bike.
Our balaclava wearing friend, @Oracle, submitted this winter reflection on the V. The article is a little ripe, but for many, spring is still a…
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La Vie Velominatus: Train Properly
There are few pleasures in life as great as to achieve a goal, to accomplish something that doesn’t come easily. Great lessons are taught through…
Guest Article: Amy’s Century…
One couldn’t get much further from Shropshire, England than Adelaide, South Australia (in more ways than just lat-long) and yet here is another Velominatus, shaving…
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Portland Cogal v1.1 Post Ride Report
“My teeth are famous!” exclaimed Fränk while Mrs. Scaler was running around with her shiny new camera, documenting the day. This happened quite a few…
La Vie Velominatus: The Toolkit
Even as a Pre-Cambrian Velominatus, the rusty wires in my brain must have made the connection between my machine’s aesthetics and the lack of a saddle bag; I…
Il Progetto: Nederaap CX-V
Building a frame has been, since childhood, a dream which always seemed a little bit out of reach. Aside from not being sure how not…
Ride Like a Girl: Marianne Vos
While it took seven Belgians to dominate the Men’s Cyclocross World Championship race on Sunday, it only took a single Dutchwoman to dominate the women’s…
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Impromptu Mini-Cogal – Newcastle, Australia 2012
Riding bicycles brings people together. It forms bonds. Bonds that can last for years, lifetimes, transcending distance and even a total lack of contact and…
La Vie Velominatus: Building Wheels
Self-awareness is a non-optional ingredient of leading a fulfilling life; while we should always push ourselves to explore new things, we should also be aware of our…
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La Vie Velominatus: Romanticization
I’m often told I romanticize Cycling’s past, that the days gone by weren’t quite as rosy as I make them out to be. There is some truth…
Guest Article: La Vie Velominatus-Transformation
The fear of crashing is there but we can’t let override our pleasure in cycling. @mblume writes of this and underplays his riding the Haute…
Darkness
Yesterday, Seattle was dark for 15 hours 34 minutes and 37 seconds. Let us not count how much it was light– it is of no…
On Rule #5: Not Minding That It Hurts
In my favorite scene from Lawrence of Arabia, T.E. Lawrence, after lighting a colleague’s cigarette, allows the match to burn down to his fingertips before snuffing it out.…
Q1 2012 V-Kit Order
It hasn't always been this way, where we thoughtlessly disembogue 140 characters or less in messages sent into a medium where our crimes against language,…
La Vie Velominatus: The VVorkshop
If the road is the cathedral where we go to worship at the altar of Merckx then the workshop must surely be the rectory. The…
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On Rule #9: Love the Work
Fitness. The rhythm, the feeling of precision in our movement, the sensations of The Ride. The temptation of knowing we might in some way control our suffering…
La Vie Velominatus: Life Gets in the Way
There’s no doubt I live La Vie Velominatus. Sometimes I think I live it maybe a little too much, as I’ve been told by independent…
La Vie Velominatus, Part VI: In Pursuit of N+1
Hardly a bike can pass through my gaze without invoking a visceral reaction; admiration for a well-manicured machine regardless of it’s discipline, delight at a…