Phil Gaimon

Popular domestic professional, would-be national champion, and Velo columnist Phil Gaimon will hit the WorldTour in 2014

Bissell rider launches solo attack that nearly sticks at the Volkswagen USA Cycling Professional Road and Time Trial National Championships

Bissell rider succumbs to illness at the Amgen Tour of California in roller coaster season

The mercury climbed well above 100 during stage 2 of the Amgen Tour of California. Should the route have been altered?

UnitedHealthcare rider claims victory in the Silver City's Tour of the Gila, his first stage race win as a professional

Chris Baldwin looks like the 2006 overall Gila champion-edition in a tough finale on Wednesday

Bissell rider talks about his hard crash at the San Dimas Stage Race, which left him with a myriad of injuries

Bissell's Phil Gaimon doesn’t recall the accident that landed him in a hospital, but the support he received is something he’ll never forget

Bissell's Phil Gaimon was airlifted to a Los Angeles hospital following a dramatic crash during the San Dimas Stage Race.

With support from family, friends, and his new Bissell team, "Phil the Thrill" is headed to altitude and hoping to leave a yellow jersey behind

Phil Gaimon fondly recalls some highlights with Kenda as he prepares to move to Bissell for 2013

Jason McCartney, Phil Gaimon, and Patrick McCarty highlight the 2013 additions to the Bissell roster

Phil Gaimon shares his favorite #ahhffseason activities, and addresses the Armstrong Affair

Velo columnist Phil Gaimon introduces readers to three riders that made it out of the EPO era clean, but not necessarily by choice

Kenda climber jumps ship for a team he thinks is almost assured a shot at the big U.S. races

Our Kenda-5-hour Energy rider checks in on late-season disappointment, a new Olympic medal system and criterium moral outrage

Phil Gaimon from Kenda-5 Hour Energy blogs from New Mexico's Tour of the Gila about nosebleeds, a bullying big brother and other racing intrigue

Kenda, Tibco riders continue strong springs with uphill prologue wins at NRC opener

The sprinters complained about the amount of climbing, but I argue it's worse for me. I'm the climber. I have to drop everyone each time.

Following a successful 2011 season Kenda-5-Hour Energy Pro Cycling presented by Geargrinder is taking it up a notch for 2012.

I’m on the way back from the last race of the year, for me, and for Kenda–5 Hr-Geargrinder (as always, sorry for the mouthful, but the sponsors paid for it, so it’s the least I can do).

" ... Someone should invent an “emergency brake.” I’m not sure how it should work (I’m just the idea man), but when there is a crash in the field, there’d be nothing worse than watching it come and having no way to avoid it. Maybe if you could just pull a parachute ..."

Since my last blog entry in July, the theme of my life has been “all kitted up and nowhere to go.”

I first met Jeremy Powers in 2008, when he was living in a huge barn-looking house in Hadley, Massachusetts, with a wide assortment of cyclocross racers, amateur teammates of mine, and their significant others.

Editor's Note: Phil Gaimon, 25, is a Velo magazine columnist and third-year pro racer for Kenda-5 Hr Energy Presented by Gear Grinder. He has an English degree from the University of Florida, and owns online stores at podiumcycling.com and sharethedamnroad.com.

I’d say the main difference between Quebec and France is that when you’re driving along the Riviera, you don’t have to watch out for moose. That said, I didn’t get to see any moose this week. I was pretty sure I saw a bear win stage 6, but it turned out to be Svein Tuft.

" Remember watching news stories of Katrina victims, staying on rows of air mattresses and cots in big, open rooms? That’s us right now: disaster relief housing. It’s no Katrina, but nine dudes in one room does qualify as a disaster."

VeloNews' newest online rider diarist is domestic pro Phil Gaimon of Kenda-Geargrinder. Gaimon already is well known to readers of VeloNews magazine as the author of one of our most popular (and funniest) features: Ask a Pro.