Author: Harold Dalton

Le Col has launched “the jerseys that will help riders conquer the ride of their life.” Designed to support riders taking on demanding parcours, the Le Col x Haute Route Jerseys use advanced fabrics to deliver a technical Pro fit. With a design inspired by the mountains, the collection is made to match the biggest of days on the bike. Engineered to excel: Le Col’s mission is to challenge people to achieve on the bike. Its partnership with Haute Route is an extension of that: “together, we’re equipping you and pushing you to reach new heights on the bike.” Haute…

Remember when Cycling.TV burst onto the scene, revolutionizing cycling broadcasting, opening up small races and new disciplines to enthralled new audiences around the world, and providing an entirely new platform for incredible cycling-related content? We do! We also remember when they tried to launch a cycling goods TV shopping channel on their network. That… did not revolutionize cycling broadcasting. They emailed us about it. I wrote about it, not knowing I’d be working there just a couple of months later. When I started, the head of production took me aside to personally tell me that this article wasn’t funny. Welcome…

In a unique collaboration, Factor bikes asked artist Karl Kopinski to take a Factor ViSTA and use it as a canvas for his art. The result was a one-off piece of cycling art that demonstrates Kopinski’s incredible talent as an illustrator. Kopinski is a passionate cyclist and has created paintings for Bradley Wiggins, Mark Cavendish and Sir Paul Smith. The project took the artist over a month to complete. Interview – The Kopinski ViSTA: What was it like to use a bike as your canvas? It was tough at first I had to concentrate on the scale of the drawings…

This essay is Part Two of the Who Can Play? Race, Gender, and Bodies series. The introduction that follows below is the same for all five essays. One of my great academic mentors, who would almost certainly prefer to remain unnamed in this article, had a fundamental belief in common with me: that sports matter. But while we certainly cycled along the same roads, both metaphorically and literally, it became clear that we were approaching a similar topic from slightly different directions. Over five weeks in 2016, we explored these directions, with research conducted at Tufts and MIT. Here follows…

Russell Williams, 18 times British national champion, sat down for a powerful interview, unearthing “something that has been buried in me for over 40 years. Now it’s uncovered there’s no going back.” Williams claims repeated refusal to select him for the national team and Olympics, despite huge successes on the bike. “I could never ride fast enough or win enough, because the one thing I couldn’t do anything about was the colour of my skin.”

Alright, we’re doing this again. We’re in Victoria for the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race, easily one of the best races this side of Omloop. One thing you can say about Cadel is that he’s really given back to the sport in Australia. The Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race is just one example. We were there for the Women’s race, the Men’s race, and the free beige food in the Mapei VIP area. Here are our thoughts. Prawn Sandwiches in the VIP area The Women The Men Watch – Highlights Here are the highlights of the women’s race.…

It’s the Towards Zero Race Torquay! Kind of looks like Race Towards Zero in the website hero, which is pretty confusing. Come to think of it, there’s something even stranger about that pic. The Race Torquay is a new addtion under the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race umbrella. It’s two UCI 1.1 circuit races, one for men and one for women (ugh, don’t get us started), on a breathtakingly beautiful 16km circuit in South Australia. Towards Zero is actually a regional vision zero commitment to stop road deaths. We looked it up. So ignore the joke we made about…

Sky’s famously been keeping the specifics of its world-beating equipment a secret, but we’ve uncovered some details and we’re not afraid to break the embargo! In your face, Brailsford. Because caliper brakes aren’t aerodynamic, the brakes have been removed altogether from the bike. Instead, the back wheel has been designed to constantly rub against the frame in order to allow the rider to naturally slow down. After consulting leading British road safety experts, Sky have added speed camera detectors to every bike. In order to save pointless weight from shoes and pedals, riders’ ankles will be tie-wrapped to their cranks. Instead of skinsuits, riders…