THRESHOLD LAB
Calibrated ergometers, blood lactate draws every eight minutes, and a coach reading your breath rate against the wattage curve. You leave with a number, not a feeling.
SPEED,
MEASURED
IN SECONDS
you can feel.
MEASURED
IN SECONDS
you can feel.
SIX TRACKS.
ONE RACING YEAR.
The program is the team. Power, sprint, endurance, recovery, mechanics, strength — every rider moves through the same six tracks, in the same order, every season.
SPRINT WORKSHOP
Seven-second jumps on fixed gear, filmed top-down and side. Cadence, hip drop, line. Tuesday nights, boards-only. No brakes.
LONG BLOCK
The unglamorous engine work. Four hours under your threshold, with paced efforts at the back half. Paired rider, shared pulls, no earpieces.
REPAIR ROOM
Contrast pools, two-chamber pneumatic sleeves, and a physio who rode the Ronde in 2019. Mandatory after every race block.
THE WORKBENCH
Your frame comes in Friday, it rolls out Saturday. Tubulars glued, chains dunked in paraffin, bearings pressed by hand. No guessing.
OFF-BIKE LIFT
Trap bar, split squat, single-leg press. We build December so March hurts less. Loaded with pros from other disciplines.
VNVELOX NOTIZIE
Il peloton dopo Wevelgem — il gruppo Velox in coda al terzo tentativo di fuga. Foto: archivio studio, 2025.
Gli allenamenti non mentono, ma i gregari sì — un metodo per non crederci.
"A race is a number you have already written, weeks earlier, on a Wednesday evening nobody saw. Velox just makes sure the pen is sharp."
The studio opens at five in the morning on race weeks, because the workshop runs before the coffee. By the time the first rider clips in, every frame has been weighed, every chain has been waxed, and the coach has already read last Sunday's file.
Training is not romantic. It is a spreadsheet with legs. And the spreadsheet, if you have been honest with it all winter, will be honest with you all spring.
The roster rotates through the same six programs — threshold, sprint, endurance, recovery, mechanics, strength — because the body is not a novel. It is a machine. It deserves the respect of a machinist.
On Tuesday evenings, from April to June, the boards are open to members only. No cameras. No phones. Just the soft whine of carbon wheels and the sound of the coach calling splits in Italian, as it was in the beginning.
RWANATOMY OF A RACE WEEK
MON
DEBRIEF
TUE
OPENERS
WED
THRESHOLD
THU
EASY SPIN
FRI
RACE PREP
SAT
RACE DAY
01
DEBRIEF
Sunday race, broken down.
Files loaded. Every effort over 500W is tagged. The coach walks you through the three moves you got wrong — and the one you nailed.
02
OPENERS
Short, sharp, boards.
45 minutes including four 30-second jumps. Opens the legs without burning the match. Measured, never improvised.
03
THRESHOLD
Twenty up, ten down.
The meat of the week. Three sets of twenty minutes at 102% of FTP. This is where fitness is actually built.
04
EASY SPIN
Nothing, carefully.
Ninety minutes under zone two. Coffee ride. Read the weather report, talk about your wife, stay off the sprint line.
05
RACE PREP
Kit laid out. Gears checked.
Mechanic signs off the bike. You hand in bottles, pin numbers, do a 20-minute pre-spin. Then go home and eat rice.
06
RACE DAY
No thinking, only pedals.
The preparation has happened. You show up, warm up on the roller, clip in. The only honest thing left is effort.
THE NUMBERS
DO THE TALKING.
Season-to-date outputs, measured on calibrated ergometers and UCI-timed races. Updated every Monday after the debrief.
3:47.2
FASTEST TEAM PURSUIT / 4KM
327
MEDIAN ROSTER FTP
14,200
COLLECTIVE KILOMETRES, 2025 SEASON
72.4
TOP FLYING 200 ON THE BOARDS
41
STARTS / SPRING CLASSICS CALENDAR
6:02:11
LONGEST SUSTAINED SUNDAY BLOCK
BOARDS LEADERBOARD · SPRING 26
0114Marta Colombini392W74.8KPHPBPBPBPB
0203Arnaud Vermeersch384W73.1KPHPBPB
0327Théo Renaud371W72.4KPHPBPBPB
0411Elena Kowalczyk368W71.9KPHPBPB
0508Lorenzo Ferri362W71.2KPHPB
0621Ines Delcour358W70.8KPHPB
0717Viktor Halász354W70.5KPH
0806Sofie Rijkaard349W69.8KPHPBPB
RIDERS,
NOT MEMBERS.
Thirty-six licensed riders on the 2026 roster, split across sprint, pursuit, TT and road. Every jersey number means something.
14
Marta Colombini
Track sprinter. Former junior national champion, 2019 Milan.
03
Arnaud Vermeersch
Aerodynamicist. Holds the studio's 10-mile record: 18:42.
27
Théo Renaud
Tactical rider. Two-time podium at the Tours city series.
11
Elena Kowalczyk
Pursuit specialist. Runs the Thursday opener sessions.
08
Lorenzo Ferri
Gran Fondo veteran. Lives on the 12% ramps in Liguria.
21
Ines Delcour
Long-block engine. 2024 studio 24-hour effort holder.
WHAT THEY
SAY AT THE FINISH LINE.
"You cannot fake lap times. The numbers are honest, even when the legs are lying. Velox is the first place that has let me trust both."
QUESTIONS,
ASKED HONESTLY.
We are not for every rider. These are the things people ask before they apply — and the answers we give them.
Not to start. We keep a stable of studio fixed-gear frames in four geometries. Once you earn your boards certification at eight weeks, most riders choose to build their own.
There isn't a watts-per-kilo gate, but the program asks for ten hours a week. If you have never sat on a bike for two hours, start with our six-week on-ramp. Then we'll talk.
Two head coaches, both with UCI category-1 racing backgrounds, and a rotating physiologist from the national federation. Every ride is planned, not improvised.
We register the team with the federation every January. Members get a license transfer and a spot on the calendar. Entry fees for the spring classics are covered.
Negative. This is a studio model. Files are reviewed on the boards, in person. We tried remote for a season in 2021. It did not work.
PIN YOUR
NUMBER.
The 2026 roster opens for applications on the 1st of May. Ten spots, judged on a 30-minute interview and a threshold test on the boards. Bring your FTP, your calendar and an honest answer to "why".