Author: Harold Dalton

Davide Rebellin is still racing, and will continue to do so until the end of the season, when he’ll finally retire aged 51. You may remember Rebellin from such mid-2000s controversies as being stripped of his Olympics silver medal, and pretending to be an Argentinian to get a ride at the Worlds when he didn’t make the Italian squad. You may also not remember those things, because they were at least 14 years ago. You may not have even been born then (and if not, here are some words you’ll enjoy: Fortnite, Among Us). It hasn’t all been bad for…

It is profoundly lazy when people make jokes about Alejandro Valverde’s age, which is little more than a catchphrase for the most boring and humorless among cycling’s fans. So, Alejandro Valverde has taken his and Movistar’s first victory of the season at the Challenge Vuelta Ciclista a Mallorca. The race has been a staple of European cycling since its inaugural edition in 1992, which Valverde raced when he was just 62. Fuck, we did the joke again. It’s his 131st career victory. One for every year of his life. Fuck, fuck. Fine, here’s your race report It was the best…

Okay, maybe not all our favorites. Many of those retired in the 1990s. But there were some very popular winners over at the Worlds, and some great names on the podium. Zoe Backstedt wins Junior Women UCI cyclo-cross world title We’ve been fans of the Backstedt sisters for a long time, and they just keep getting better. Zoe has been winning everything she enters for years now. Crazy talent! Women’s U23s 1Puck Pieterse (Netherlands)0:46:272Shirin Van Anrooij (Netherlands)3Fem Van Empel (Netherlands)0:00:12 A Dutch one-two-three. Loads of Yanks making up the last few places. All things are as they should be. Marianne…

It’s been a long week since we went and cruised backstage at the Australian Road Nats. We’re tired. So tired we can’t think up rude captions for all these images to get us in trouble a couple of years later. So today we’re going to be nice about people. You can think of your own rude captions in your mind, using your imagination. Especially you, Robbie McEwen, you can think all kinds of horrible things about the women in the photos, then cry when you get in trouble for saying them out loud. Formal Review of the Aussie Road Nats:…

Garmin (and its conjoined twin, Tacx) has announced its major 2022 sponsorships. If you’re at all vaguely aware of the sport–and why would you be, you’re only reading a site called Cyclry–you can probably predict that the list includes almost anybody that matters. Wahoo gets the rest. Then the hundred or so of shitty competitors fight for whatever professional athletes remain in the dust and pubes on the bathroom floor. Garmin’s list for 2022 includes more than 15 professional cycling teams and hundreds of professional runners, cyclists and triathletes, and Garmin tells us that they have all “chosen the robust…

It’s our favorite thing ever: brand demo tours. Favorite thing to work, anyway. It’s fun going to lots of places and meeting people who actually love the products you work on. Oh wait, this time we’re not calling it a demo tour. It’s the 2022 Garmin Tacx Mash Down Tour, “an 11-city tour beginning January 20, that will showcase the Garmin and Tacx ecosystem to cyclists around the U.S. through hands-on demos, head-to-head challenges on Zwift and more.” Sounds very cool to us. Don’t make us Zwift though. We don’t play videogames. “The robust Garmin and Tacx ecosystem includes products that…

Garmin has finally released its eagerly-awaited 2021 Global Garmin Connect Fitness Report. Wait, this is just a blog post. Why’d they hit us up about a blog post? The report offers insights into the activities of millions of Garmin smartwatch users around the world as the COVID-19 pandemic stretched into its second year. Whether hitting the trails, the slopes or even the yoga mat, Garmin customers logged more activities in the Garmin Connect™ fitness community app than ever before, with double-digit increases in almost every activity category. Which is nice, really. “In the face of ongoing lockdowns and the emergence of new…

Absolute Cycling, makers of the upcoming bike computer that we’re sure was once called the Absolute One but now seems to be the Absolute Cycling System, have announced that first their series of navigation tests have been successful. Absolute told us, “To finally experience our custom designed maps on the bright and high-res screen is amazing.” That’s quite a big deal, since it’s easy to get wrong. Though that other navigation-focused bike computer company just trundled on with maps and navigation never quite getting the point where it truly worked before they launched their next product, so we’ll refrain from…