Author: Harold Dalton

Way back in the futuristic year 2000, we were working at the World Track Championships in Manchester. Faced with an empty velodrome during one of the lulls, we snuck over to the “race worn” David Millar yellow jersey from the Tour de France, opened its case, and sniffed the armpits to check if it was really worn. And let us tell you, we won’t be doing that again. We’d advise you to never sniff a race-worn jersey’s armpit. HOWEVER, if you’d prefer to ignore our sage advice, there’s a new opportunity to enjoy the putrid aromas of athlete sweat: Team…

It’s news that has been hard to miss: Wout van Aert crashed heavily in the Dwars Door Vlaanderen. After weeks spent training at altitude to be in optimal form, the crash seemingly put paid to his hard worked plans to win the *gestures generally at Roubaix and Flanders*. And now there’s no seemingly about it. He’s confirmed to miss the Spring Classics. Wout van Aert suffered a broken sternum, broken collarbone and several broken ribs. He has already had a successful operation and will spend the coming weeks recovering. We may yet see him on the start line of the…

Mike Cernovich, the cross-eyed right-wing grifter famous for crying about videogames in 2015 and then crying about almost everything else in the decade that followed, has weighed in on cycling culture. If you’re not terminally online, congratulations, you won’t understand a word of this. Well, maybe you’ll understand the word ‘cycling.’ It breaks down as follows: Divorced and disbarred, Mike has followed the ancient path of riding a bike to prove his worth over his wife’s boyfriend. Unfortunately, while cycling is caffeine-coded (presumably in the sense that we all drink espressos) and nicotine-coded (he once saw a bike messenger smoking…

Race Report Amidst rain and challenging conditions, UAE Team Emirates showcased their strength and skill in the stage 3 team time trial at Paris-Nice, emerging victorious and propelling Brandon McNulty into the race lead. The team’s exceptional performance on the hilly 26.9km Auxerre course not only secured the stage win but also positioned McNulty in the coveted yellow jersey. Led by Finn Fisher-Black, with support from Jay Vine and Joao Almeida, UAE Team Emirates navigated the demanding terrain with precision and determination. McNulty’s ascent to the race lead, accompanied by Fisher-Black’s claim to the white jersey as the best young…

The Union Cycliste Internationale, our noble, benevolent rulers, have announced that French Decathlon-AG2R rider Franck Bonnamour has been provisionally suspended in accordance with the UCI Anti-Doping Rules. The UCI have shed very little light at this stage, but tell us the suspension is due to “unexplained abnormalities in his Biological Passport.” Unexplained abnormalities, huh. Sounds a bit Close Encounters to us. Biological passports do too, really, but we’re used to hearing that phrase. Still, if you’re a time-traveller, know that we don’t have aliens in 2024. Just much worse stuff. Expect to not hear much more. The UCI have told…

Sir Dave Brailsford, the architect behind Team Sky’s and Ineos Grenadiers’ unparalleled success, has decided to step back from his role as the team principal. This news comes amidst a significant restructuring of Ineos Grenadiers, marking a new chapter for the team. At 59, Brailsford remains an influential figure, transitioning into the position of Ineos’ director of sport. Which is a role that encompasses more than cycling. While he will still wield influence over the cycling team, he has relinquished the title of team principal. Brailsford’s legacy at Team Sky, later Ineos Grenadiers, is illustrious. Since the squad’s inception in…

We don’t talk ebikes too much on Cyclry. There has been the odd snide remark, obviously, but if the odd snide remark counts as actual coverage, then we cover almost everything in the world. In fact, the number of offers we’ve had to receive free ebikes massively outnumbers the number of actual ebike articles we’ve written. Not sure what that’s about. It’s not the 2000s anymore, you can’t just send us thousands of pounds of free product for coverage… and if you’re seriously emailing us to send us a $3,850 ebike, you’re greatly overestimating our platform’s significance in the 2020s.…

A critical examination of the production of meaning in the contemporary English language cycling media Note: This is a recreation of the 2007-published Cycles of Representation, based on unfinished files on floppy disks (remember those?). It differs from the published version you may have read, and from the version available in archives. << Introduction CHAPTER ONE: POSTMODERN SHIFTS AND THE PRODUCTION OF CYCLING MEDIA TEXTS Cycling’s unique relationship with the production of its media texts, and the mediation that occurs as a result of this, is an important and particularly well documented aspect of the sport’s history (a useful example…