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  • The Velominati embrace cycling as a way of life, as obsessed with style, heritage, authenticity, and wisdom as with performance. This is their bible.
  • Are you a rider or a poser? No matter - This book will be enjoyed by anyone with an ironic sense of humor
  • 95 Rules to help you be a better road biker
  • Hard Core Road Biking Rules to live by - see where you stand
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4.0 out of 5 starsYou'd need to be a Velominazi to believe that the rules should be strictly adhered to.
By Amazon Customer on September 6, 2013
Format: Hardcover
In the prologue to the book, it states that cycling is a mighty sport with a rich and complex history, that behind every racer, company, component or kit, there is a history, a legend - a reason to be passionate for its existence.That this is a sport steeped in tradition and yet fiercely modern, seeking advancement through science & technology.

Velominati is centred on the notion that this passion is the foundation for the enjoyment not only cycling, but life itself and that a sense of humour is a wonderful mechanism for developing and sustaining such a passion.

Although this is a book of rules it's through the rules that the humour really shines & as it states, you'd need to be a Velominazi to believe that the rules should be strictly adhered to. The rules are there as guidelines, points of discussion, style hints and traditions that have been merely formulated into words & then explained, reasoned and passionately argued, but with humour at the core.

Rule #12 - The correct number of bikes to own is n+1, where n is the number of bikes currently owned - this equation can also be written as s-1, where s is the number of bikes owned that would result in separation from your partner.

Rule #50 - Facial hair is to be carefully regulated. No full beards, no moustaches. Goatees are permitted only if your name starts with Marco and ends with Pantani, or if your head is intentionally or unintentionally bald. Also one may never shave on the morning of an important race, as it saps your virility, and you need that to kick @£$%.

Rule #24 - Speeds and distances shall be referred to in Kilometres, apart from allowing you to reference professional races in the proper context, it has the added bonus of making you appear to race faster & longer.Read more ›
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1.0 out of 5 starsDo not buy the Kindle version
By L. Oliveira on January 16, 2014
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Formatting problems (pages are presented as pictures, not actual text) render it unreadable. Don't bother. Go for the physical book or no book at all.
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5.0 out of 5 starsGreat Content Love it but...................
By lostinfrance on July 19, 2013
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It is a great read, I am a keen cyclist but the text is sooooo smallllllll and not scale able so poo. Massive file size and lots of blank pages as you move through the book. In short the content is good the ebook version is simply awful.
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4.0 out of 5 stars"Keepers of the Cog"
By snailmartyr on August 2, 2013
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I avoided getting the Kindle version after reading the reviews here, and so ordered the hard copy. The print on that version is also difficult to read due to the thin grey font used. This is funny due to the overly fastidious (fatuous?) nature of some of the advice given within. There's a whole section devoted to the color coordination of bicycle frames, seats, and handlebar wrap with the injunction to just go black, black, black... how about a black font guys? Preferably Times New Roman, Arial, or - drunk and on a dare - Verdana.

The numerous typos and glitches are the result of poor editing. Because between cutting and pasting text off the website, centering the labels to their tires over the valve stem (Rule #40), and scowling at anyone with a seatbag (Rule #29), who has time to spot "Campagnola" (page 121), or that Rules 77 and 81 have the same intro?

Also, they need to ditch the crappy attitude taken toward fixie riders. When I got back into cycling several years ago after a long hiatus, I found that cycling and cyclists had changed, and not for the better. The attitudes were terrible. The first thing you notice is no one waves to each other anymore, unless they are all kitted out like Lance Armstrong on steroids... um, er... well, you take my meaning.

In my day, we didn't care if you were out on Geiger grade riding a Huffy cast-iron tubed mountain bike, wearing gym shorts and a wife-beater... you got a wave and a friendly tip of the head. The fixie crowd is mostly young, urban, and riding strictly for fun. They value spontaneity and individualism and what is wrong with that? They can be immature and make bad equipment choices, but that's exactly where age and experience can be brought to bear.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsCycling Like The Cool Kids In The Cafeteria
By Richard J. DiBiasio on September 26, 2014
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If Summer Wheatley, the cheerleader who lost the class election to Pedro in Napoleon Dynamite, married know -it- all Cliff Claven from Cheers and they produced a son who liked to wear spandex; you'd come close to the tone of this ode to peer pressure, male over-compensation, and professional cycling trivia called The Rules. If you bought a road bike because you like to ride a lot, ride fast, and simply have fun, you'll be sad to know that you are doing it all wrong. You must also be a trivia spouting, leg shaven dick who wears only the clothing approved by this anonymous author. He communicates his eye rolling and superiority for all cyclists who don't follow his narrow minded and ridiculous views of riding a bicycle with disdain and off the mark humor. Instead of sounding like the intended Jedi Knight, the author comes across more like a prissy valley girl, insisting that only he knows the proper way to ride and you wouldn't possibly want the cool kids like him to mock you. For sure. Vote for Summer.

For example, did you know that if you come upon a fellow rider who has turned her bike over to change a flat that you should ride by without stopping to help, nose in the air, because she is breaking Rule # 49? (It's for her own good.) Or that you should never get out of the big ring (Don't use your lower gears)? Rule #90. However, the bulk of the book is about fashion and grooming tips to maintain your virility while wearing spandex; no easy task to be sure. The author has acute fashion awareness and The Rules has more fashion commentary than any issue of GQ. Stop riding if your shorts, socks, and bike colors don't always match! Very bitchy!Read more ›
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1.0 out of 5 starsNew rules.

Meh, didn't actually provide useful content. Just a bunch of rules for roadies. It's a bike, just ride it how you want, when you want. Just ride.

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If you ride, race, tour you will like this. Funny but serious about our sport. Learn from the masters. I will read this many times over, I am sure

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