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 OneConclusion >> 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…
Author: Harold Dalton
Harold Dalton
Cycling industry professional with two decades of experience in professional journalism, television, and industry writing.
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…
Bitcoin. You used to get it for free, back in the day. How many hundreds of thousands of dollars did we throw out back when Bitcoin was just an expensive and slow way to buy mail-order beef jerky? These days nobody would ever just give it away. Wait, we’re hearing some insane news. MyWhoosh has entered with a proposition: ride your bike, find a digital gate, and win actual Bitcoin. Does this make us like MyWhoosh less? Yes, actually. But maybe it makes YOU want to ride it? MyWhoosh is the UAE’s free-to-use answer to Zwift, and its used its…
We’re on our third web host. Fourth registrar, kinda. In a typically Cyclry act of cutting off our nose to spite our face, we really did nuke the site for a while. We’ve cleared the irradiation. Got the elderly (Henri) to volunteer for the cleanup, since they won’t last long enough to see the long-term effects. Wait, is this the type of thing we write and then have to apologize for? Probably. Email isn’t working yet. It will be. Give us until Friday. Then, once Friday is here, give us however long we say in the next excuse. Contact form…
Starting right fucking now, with our total apologies for not providing any kind of warning that a sale was coming, Cyclry Premium+ is on sale for 90% off. The sale will run until the waitlist is filled. We do try not to be helpful, but we’re expecting that to happen by early Friday Nov 28. If you don’t know what Cyclry Premium+ is, how to buy it, or what it entails, then don’t worry about it. Thanks for your support!