Author: Harold Dalton

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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Report Marianne Vos has won the sixth stage of the Tour de France Femmes. The rider of Team Jumbo-Visma was by far the fastest in the sprint of a reduced peloton and took her second stage win of this Tour. In the general classification, the yellow jersey wearer further extended her lead. Fourteen riders were part of a large breakaway group and although the escapees never gained an advantage of more than two minutes, the peloton had to pull out all the stops to catch them. As the break was being caught, Vos’s teammate Anna Henderson accelerated, bringing two riders…

Report Following their resounding victory on stage one in Paris, Team DSM and Lorena Wiebes have raced to a second stage win at the Tour de France Femmes on stage 5 into Saint-Dié-des-Vosges. The longest stage of the week also presented the final sprint opportunity of the race and it was one that the team were keen to make the most of. After the early break of four riders had established itself, the DSM team set about controlling the stage and keeping their lead in check, while keeping Wiebes out of trouble. Once everything was back together, a hectic finale…

What’s the biggest news in cycling right now? You got it, the launch of a new bidon. We had never heard of Bivo and we’re guessing you haven’t either, so here’s what we learned from our research reading through the email they sent: Bivo launched their signature product, the Bivo One in late 2020, followed by the Duo in 2021. All of Bivo’s products are certified carbon neutral, and 1% of each sale is allocated to the Bivo Fund, where the money is dispersed yearly to non-profit organizations working on cycling, water, and climate change issues. Now, following the success…

Report With an impressive solo of no less than 23 kilometres, Marlen Reusser rounded off a strong performance by Team SD Worx in the gravel stage of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift. The team dictated the pace on all the gravel roads and the Swiss team time trial specialist attacked confidently in the finale. After she had built up a gap, the competition did not get any closer. Reusser scored an impressive first stage win for Team SD Worx in the Tour. “The tactical plan worked perfectly. I don’t realise yet that I am a stage winner in…