Author: Harold Dalton

Cycling industry professional with over 14 years of experience in professional journalism, television, and industry writing.

DerailedUK Archives:1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27a | 27b | 28 | 29 Ride the time machine back to the 2008 Tour de France. We’d taken an all expenses paid trip to Paris courtesy of… a friend of Derailed who was riding London-Paris. Much appreciated, even if it was a different source from…

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We’re dusting the cobwebs off of our typing fingers to bring you some of the HOTTEST Black Friday cycling deals around. So grab your wife’s boyfriend’s credit card and prepare to spend big on America’s most holy of days. 4iii Power Meter Black Friday Deals 4iii is coming in strong this Black Friday, with deals across their power meter range from Monday 20th November to Sunday 3rd December 2023. These deals are supported by their international distributors and partners, so should be available wherever you normally go to buy your weekly power meter. Product lineDealPrecision power meterNDS R7000, R8000, M9100 – up…

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For the third Istria300 edition on October 7th, 2.800 participants from 40 countries came to Croatia to start their ride in colourful Istria when the sun rose. The last finisher crossed the finish line when the sun went down. All participants started from the Poreč, where they also finished the ride. Under the event slogan, Ride your limits! participants could, as every year, choose a route length of 300, 242 or 168 kilometres during the ride, which makes Istria300 a unique project. The fact that there are about 1,000 applicants on the waiting list speaks about the success of this…

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Did you know that road safety sportswear exists? Short of some kind of X-men style skinsuit with projectiles to launch at wretched drivers, we’re finding it hard to imagine. Anyway, it DOES exist, and Irish sportswear brand Bodylite is apparently the leading company in the space, per their own words. Our style guide says we–and by proxy, everyone else–should actually be referring to it as road danger reduction sportswear, but the concept as a whole is too intriguing for us to get riled up about simple things like the linguistic constructions that rule our interactions with the entire universe. Bodylite…

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DerailedUK Archives:1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27a | 27b | 28 | 29 There’s a feeling that we dialed in Issue Six. Admittedly, that’s a feeling common to all issues of DerailedUK. There’s also a sense that we were growing weary of the world of pro cycling, especially since we were working in…

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