One of many guest articles for Derailed. Absolutely no idea who wrote it though. Zoom Gordo maybe? Though I’m sure some of the jokes are mine (I’m particularly fond of “I’ve ridden up that mountain myself and I did the last 5km in an ambulance”), so maybe it was a collab. Don’t know. Someone email us and claim it. This article is from one of my favorite issues of DerailedUK (#11). The graphic design was so intentionally terrible that it ruined the content. That’s something we only occasionally achieve at Cyclry, sadly. How to Spot a Doper GUEST FEATURE. Published…
Author: Harold Dalton
Harold Dalton
Cycling industry professional with over 14 years of experience in professional journalism, television, and industry writing.
Not sure how to feel about this one. Did you know we worked on the original ENGO launch, way back before it was even called ENGO? Now we just get the press releases on embargo day. Still, it’s a cool enough product. We should probably get one for free though. Engo tells us that ENGO 2 is “the lightest, and most technologically advanced eyewear created specifically for endurance athletes.” The original was the ultimate cycling HUD experience so far in terms of clarity, comfort, and weight, so we can believe it. They also emailed over this absolute word vomit of…
Wout van Aert, our premature pick for rider of the season, will not ride the World Championships Time-Trial in Wollongong, Australia next month. The Belgian finished second in the past two editions of the Worlds TT, but now wants to focus solely on the Road Race. Which makes sense. After all, last’s year’s Tour de France time-trial, Ventoux, and Champs Elysees winner is famous for sticking to one discipline. The news is not strictly a surprise, since he’d hinted at it earlier in the year and stated his final answer would come after the Tour de France. Nevertheless, this year’s…
The Stages Cycling Leadville Stage Race, owned and produced by Life Time as part of the Leadville Race Series, took place July 29-31. Phew, this race is a mouthful. Stages, Life Time, and anyone else that’s reading: please give us money to be The Stages Cyclry Website Produced by Life Time. The race has a new format for 2022, possibly, one that spreads out the Stages Cycling Leadville Trail 100 MTB course over three days in a stage race format. And it was a success: the weekend brought about 250 riders representing 38 states and three countries to Leadville, Colo.,…
Way back in 2019, we debuted the SUPER GRAND TOUR. It was a simple concept: combine riders’ overall times across all three grand tours to declare a Super Grand Tour champion. (Want more detail? There are more details, and a joke about killing the Pope, in that link above.) Of course, riding all three grand tours is rare. Simon Yates and Thomas De Gendt were the only two riders to start the 2019 Vuelta after completing that year’s Giro and Tour, and only De Gendt finished. Which meant all our hard work calculating cumulative times across three grand tours was…
LeBron James, famous to many Americans for playing basketball, has invested $30M of his own money in Canyon Bicycles. Wow! Oh. Actually his investment group, LRMR Ventures, is ones of two groups that have taken “strategic equity investments” in the German bicycle company, totaling $30M. Canyon says the money will help expand its US presence, which makes sense. Give us a $30M investment and we’ll expand our US presence to a farm in New Hampshire and a beach house in Maine. LeBron has previously invested in Liverpool FC, and is apparently also a cycling enthusiast. He commutes to NBA games…
Report A dream come true thanks to hard work, ambition and confidence in each other across the whole group. The Movistar Team celebrated on Sunday one of the biggest victories in its long history as they conquered the first edition, in its current format, of the Tour de France Femmes with GC honours for Annemiek van Vleuten. The victory was all but sealed with Saturday’s legendary exhibition, attacking with more than 80km from the finish at the first of three big cols on stage seven -the Petit Ballon (Cat-1)- and covering the final sixty kilometers solo in the lead to…
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