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Cognescenti Fundamentalist sect of Rule 5 loyalists: The Cognescenti. http://www.velominati.com/blog/the-lexicon/#Cognescenti

Rules Modifications Head on over to Velominati and post your suggested revisions; we'll be making some changes. We'll also be announcing a new, fundamentalist sect based on Rule 5 and led by a particularly fanatic reader. http://www.velominati.com/blog/the-rules/

Velominati Super Prestive: Giro d'Italia If you have any clue at all as to who will win, head on over to velominati and enter the Super Prestige for a chance to win an Obey the Rules bumper sticker and a Velominati shop apron: Velominati Super Prestige: Giro d'Italia

Seems to me we're getting off-track here. We're not talking about language. We're talking about cycling, no? We are talking about the hardmen. Flandrians. And, the hardest of the hardmen, the Flahute. A Flandrian is one who lives for the stones, who pulls back the curtain on the...

Velominati Super Prestive: La Fleche Hey guys - head on over to Velominati and enter your top five picks for the La Fleche edition of the Velominati Super Prestige. All the cool kids are doing it! Winner takes home an Obey the Rules bumper sticker and the series winner takes home the...

Velominati has launched a season-long competition called the Velominati Super Prestige as a throw-back to the original UCI World Cup. Enter your picks for the top five placings before the race starts on Sunday, and you could win an Obey the Rules bumper sticker. The results will be counted for...

@James I suppose you're right. I'm already looking forward to your next piece! As a point of interest, a sharp-eyed reader, Marko, on Velominati made the following comment regarding some further frame details: (There are a series of photos on Velominati's post the make it easy to compare.)

@James Thanks for continuing to investigate. It would be really cool if you could share it. @Gee333 It's possible, but I think it's pretty visually obvious that the top tube on Pantani's race-winning machine is more dramatically sloping, so it seems even the frame is not the one we're looking...

James, Thanks for your reply and for continuing to look into this and investigate; this is why we love CyclingNews! It would be great to find the real original some day... Would it be possible for you to post the drawings from Bianchi, or are you under agreement not to disclose?

Pantani's Real Bike I'm a big fan of the retro bike pieces, and am a huge fan of the 1998 Bianchi Pirate machine, that thing was a work of art. Unfortunately, the machine reviewed on CyclingNews...

Nice Piece on VDB http://www.velominati.com/blog/doping/vdb-1974-2009/trackback/

Doping Year-Round? Anyone have any insight to why these guys are doping during the off-season?