Author: Harold Dalton

Winner Interview Tim Merlier confirmed he is one of the fastest riders in the peloton, dashing to victory – his first on the road in the Soudal Quick-Step jersey – on the opening stage of the Tour of Oman, which incidentally was the sprinters’ only opportunity to leave their mark at this edition. Benefitting from a fast and furious lead-out train consisting of Jordi Warlop and Bert Van Lerberghe, the 30-year-old, who was victorious in the Zonnebeke cyclo-cross earlier this season, emerged at the front of the peloton only with the finish line in sight, and despite kicking out with…

Winner Interview “It’s just incredible to get my first professional win! Two weeks ago I was on the podium for the first time in the pros in Valencia, today it’s my first success… The team believed in me. Everyone supported me, my teammates, the staff… and I am happy to have finished the job well to reward them. It was not necessarily the ideal scenario for me: it was rather quiet on the flat and very strong as soon as it went up. The pace was very hard to follow in the bumps. I gave it my all. On the…

Polartec, a company one of the Cyclry team interviewed at way back in the darkest pre-pandemic days, has announced Polartec® Shed Less Fleece. And if you thought it was to do with conspiracies about vaccines shedding viruses everywhere, you’re wrong. Polartec describes it as a “new milestone in its industry-leading efforts to reduce textile fiber fragment shedding.” Sounds like an important mission. We’re just pasting this. It basically says ‘we made some clothes.’ Here it is: “Shed Less is a process that combines yarn construction, knitting, chemistry, and manufacturing to reduce home laundry fiber fragment shedding by an average of…

The company’s latest influx of cash is not the reason we write so much about them right now though. It’s just because we got back into riding Zwift. Though we wouldn’t say no to a bit of payola. Hint hint. Anyway, it’s raised $620,000,000 in funding from investors that include KKR and Co., Permira Holdings, and Amazon’s Alex Fund. All this without yet turning a profit. These are dumb times in which we live. Please consider this outlandish statement framed as a hashtag: #NationalizeZwift. Zwift is betting on targeting competitive users, which is ok. Also, it wants to get to…

Scraping the bottom of the barrel a bit here. Hope we’re not forgetting some important bike race that we could be writing about instead. Something in a place like Hoogerheide. Nothing comes to mind. *We’re allowed to do him like this, even if he didn’t officially win them anymore, because he still has “7x Tour Champion” in his email signature.

Ever wanted to ride your bike through the scenic Scottish Highlands? Great! Now you can. Ever wanted to ride your bike in Glasgow? Gr– oh. Well, you can do that too, if you ever change your mind. Zwift has released its Scotland map. But the map’s existence has never been a secret, with Zwift openly sharing its plans to add the 2023 Worlds location. Its first public appearance was as the finale of the 2023 Tour de Zwift. The new map includes enchanted forests, winding climbs, and a shimmering loch. You absolutely know, absolutely, that there’s a monster in that…