Back in February my wife Juli dropped me off in a Sausolito parking for my first Rapha gentlemen’s ride. Standing there in a freshly pressed Rapha uniform with my shiny black plastic bike I felt like a kid on the first day at a new school. I watched the Continental crew spill out of their [...]

Imagine opening your door on the way to the bike shed for the company Colnago and being assaulted by the tag team of Spindrift & Gale (which might be a great name for a law firm specializing in soaking its clients). Such is the lot of my pal Brian Palmer of washingmachinepost fame. In truth [...]

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Those of you who read Velodramatic regularly know I have a dark addiction to high-end cycling kit. I go one or two weeks without feeding the habit and my pedal stroke breaks down (more ankling [...]

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I’ve played golf far longer than I’ve cycled… almost thirty-five years in pursuit of the elusive magic of the game. Few might agree but golf and cycling have a great deal in common. At their core both sports are solitary conversations with ourselves, revealing with brutal clarity our true character. Courage, integrity, commitment are [...]

I pulled up to Brendan’s place at 6:20 am, and loaded his bike onto the Raxter while he gathered the last bits and pieces for a long day together on the road. His giant Soulcraft was sporting a new, but recycled, Brooks saddle that had only seen limited action on his commuter. He must have [...]

Andy Clark’s latest video review of the new Shimano Dura-Ace 7900 gruppo is exceptional, and continuing evidence that CC really has the passion and knowledge to earn our cycling dollars. Given that this comprehensive review is up and running within a week of the major publication’s reporting of same, and Andy has a busy day [...]

Santa Clara, CA – Each Spring, when cycling’s attention turns to classics on the cobbles of Belgium, cyclists here face an annual classic of another kind. I’m speaking of course about Trash week - the Hell of the Heap, a general amnesty for homeowners resulting in a communal purge to equal Hercules’ labors in [...]

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With my left thigh cramping and ride support stretched between two groups still out on the road, no man’s land was no place to be. 65 tough miles behind me, at the corner of Clark Rd and Highway 1 I climbed [...]

I didn’t want it to come to this. The honeymoon with my Edge 305 and the MotionBased subscription service ended months ago. These days we’re both just going through the motions and the lies and recriminations are starting to pile up. She’s always been temperamental. Lord knows I’ve tried to provide a receptive environment, one [...]

Yes we suffer on our bikes, occasionally experiencing a Sapim worth of what cycling’s hardmen, the half-frozen damned, go through grinding out mile after mile in the horrific trials of races like Paris Roubaix. What many outside of cycling don’t see, and what I didn’t appreciate until I became truly velodramatic was the gentler side [...]