On a scale of one to ten, how excited are you about the Tour of Oman? Thanks. Given the slim possibility of the Tour of Oman offering some kind of sponsorship to Cyclry, we have rounded your answer up to the nearest ten. Please watch the following video: Does seeing this video on CYCLRY make you feel more likely to purchase products or services from the Tour of Oman’s sponsors? More Likely / Extremely Likely / Certain to Purchase (delete as appropriate) We have an additional question about annual household income, but we don’t want to bother you with it.…
Author: Harold Dalton
Harold Dalton
Cycling industry professional with two decades of experience in professional journalism, television, and industry writing.
The new Varia RearVue 820 doesn’t just tell you a car is coming. It tells you how big it is, how scary it is, and whether it’s about to ruin your KOM attempt. Garmin has launched its latest Varia rearview radar, the horrifically named Varia RearVue 820, and it is a significant leap forward for the device that single-handedly stopped your clubmates from looking over their left shoulders every 15 seconds. At $299.99, it’s pricier than its RTL515 predecessor. But what isn’t more expensive in 2026? Besides misery, and we ride our bikes to avoid that, or at least give…
Cyclry is all about the bikes. We like cool tech, fast races, and zooming in on Instagram cycling influencers when they’re wearing white bib shorts. And sometimes we even ride bikes. In New Hampshire, in fact. So it is with regret that we inform you of the dumbest fucking thing anybody has said about bicycles since the last time a car driver opened their mouth: New Hampshire House Bill 1703. The bill, introduced by Representative Thomas Walsh (R-Hooksett), proposes a mandatory annual registration fee of $50 for every single bicycle used on public roads or trails in the state. Unenforcable?…
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. << Chapter One CHAPTER TWO: STRUCTURES OF INFLUENCE – THE VALUES INHERENT IN CYCLING MEDIA TEXTS The structures, influences and systems through which the English language cycling media produces consumable texts are intrinsically linked to the construction of meaning through systems of representation based around the construction of…
If you have been thinking that avoiding bike shop dealer margins immunizes you from the broader cycling industry hangover, then, uh. Then you need to have more interesting thoughts. Also, more correct ones, because even Koblenz, wherever that is, is feeling the heat. Canyon Bicycles, the German direct-to-consumer juggernaut that changed how we buy bikes (and how we patiently wait for customer service emails), announced this week that it is cutting up to 320 jobs. For those keeping score at home, that is roughly 20% of their total workforce of 1,600 people. The “Agility” Defense In a press release that…
In a sport increasingly dominated by carbohydrates per hour and aerodynamic sock height, Lidl-Trek has decided to stick with the oldest marginal gain in the book: basic physics. The team have announced that they are renewing their partnership with Best Bike Split for the 2026 season. While press releases about “continued partnerships” usually go straight into the digital trash bin, this one is notable for one reason: they’ve been doing this since 2014. Back when the rest of the peloton was still debating if aero frames were a gimmick, Trek Factory Racing (the team’s emo phase name) was already plugging…
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 This was a fun one. In 2008 we went to Beverley in East Yorkshire for the British Criterium Champs and the East Yorkshire Classic. Chips were eaten. Hull accents were heard. And we got in trouble for driving the commissaire…
In 2027, the biggest race in the world will finish a stage in the birthplace of Cyclry. We have endured many things since we launched this site back in the hazy 2006 spring of a Liverpool soon to be European City of Culture. We survived Floyd Landis’s chin, emails to our boss from an aggrieved cycling journo, and toothless legal threats from the BNP. We escaped to the rocky Atlantic coast. We thought it was all behind us. But. The ASO has officially confirmed that the 2027 Tour de France Grand Départ will take place in the UK. Yes, it…