Author: Harold Dalton

Dark Cycle Clothing have released their Halloween collection. We love their gear, and this latest collection is great for Halloween parties, day-to-day goth wear, or just scaring the shit out of your newborn baby. Here are our favorites from the collection, organized from least to most spoopy.

Form takes precedence over functionality in this beautiful basic cycling computer, but it executes its limited feature set well and is a stylish entry-level option.

The 2010s are over – the Vuelta was the final Grand Tour that will ever start with a 201x. User ser-seaworth on r/peloton put together this vomit-colored and slightly illegible infographic that wraps up the decade nicely.

Mark Cavendish remains one of the greatest sprinters ever to grace the sport. But he’s equally famous for his temperament, with a remarkable predilection toward kicking off in interviews because he refuses to suffer fools gladly. I’ve always admired that aspect of his personality. Here’s the time I fell foul of it:

Part Three: Case Study. The body, with all its gendered and racialized associations, became the concept through which cycling as a sport and France as a state realigned their notions of the natural, the medical, and the illicit.

Around four years ago I read an article written by Carlton Reid suggesting that companies that make money from cycling should throw their weight behind cycle campaigning. As with pretty much everything in the world of campaigning, it hasn’t happened. We are still around the 2% mark for the share of journeys that are cycled in the UK every day, compared to around a third of journeys in the Netherlands.

The Tour has the prestige, and the Giro has the veritas. The Vuelta has… a bunch of mad bastards. It’s the Grand Tour for people who don’t take themselves too seriously, and that’s what I love about it.

Part Two: Background. The history of drug testing in sports is specifically a history of regulating physical bodies.