THE RULES ILLUSTRATED
When we first thought of writing an article about The Rules as codified by Velominati, we knew we had to illustrate them. Ideas including photo stories and videos flew around but when I showed the others the drawings of Pavel Novák, a talented artist and a dear friend for as long as I can remember, everybody was happy to go with good old hand-drawn illustrations.
Although Pavel rides a Dahon to and from work most days, he is not a cyclist in the sense put forward by Velominati. He couldn't care less about The Rules and he will happily place the drive train on the left - hand side in his illustrations. But his sense of humour and his skill is so great that it doesn't matter one bit. Understandably, when selecting the rules to illustrate we had to pick the ones that lend themselves to such treatment. Luckily we managed to come up with ideas for most we wanted to illustrate, the one exception being the famous Greg LeMond quote borrowed for rule #10.
#5 - Harden the fuck up
Let's start with the rule of rules, the mighty #5. Cycling is hard and to be able to cope with the strain you have to harden up. The models here are the hard men from cycling's past, from the heroes of the early Tours and Giros riding 15 kg bikes with no gears on 300+ km stages to the giants of the sport like Coppi and Merckx. And tens of others whose names we know and thousands we don't.
#7 - Tan lines should be cultivated and kept razor sharp
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