Author: Harold Dalton

The Tour has snuck up on us already, after a shorter than usual break. Several former winners take to the start line, with the notable exception of 2019 winner Egan Bernal, who won the Giro to make a powerful statement about his omission from the INEOS squad. Cycling has a glut of exciting talent in its new Golden Age, almost all of whom will be racing. That includes Wout van Aert, Mathieu Van Der Poel, and last year’s winner Tadej Pogacar. Can this race possibly live up to the hype? Let’s find out! When is it? The Tour begins on…

Bernard Hinault had missed out on the 1983 Tour de France due to injury, but his young domestique Laurent Fignon had taken his place in the starting line-up and, with some smart riding and strong climbing, had come away with another overall win for the team. Was Hinault pleased? Was he fuck. Nose bent out of shape, he went on the warpath, demanding the Renault-Elf team sack directeur sportif Cyrille Guimard and renew the team with an organizational structure that would place Hinault so highly he’d be in a power-sharing agreement with God herself. The team’s owners, pleased with Guimard’s…

Prendas Ciclismo is one of our favorite cycling shops. That’s not only because they’re long-time supporters of our work (it’s possible they wouldn’t want to be identified as such), but because their catalogue and accompanying content is always 100% on point and fully in touch with cycling culture. They’ve even resisted the Rapha bullshit that’s infected the entire industry–no mean feat as a retro clothing company. Now they’re downscaling. Well, shit. The signs were there all along, what with all the clearance sales, but now it’s official. Here’s what Andy says: On the year that Prendas Ciclismo celebrates our 25th…

“Almost every fixed inventory will betray us. Is the novel a ‘bourgeois’ form? The answer can only be historically provisional: When?”(Hall 1983, p. 484) For Stuart Hall, popular culture is a temporal object whose signs and signifiers betray an underlying class struggle. As such, incorporating value into existing popular cultures, or else marginalizing other cultural forms, is not simply a matter of taste, but a discursive negotiation displacing cultural practices from “the center of popular life” (Hall 1983, pp. 477-478). Hall’s thinking lends itself to analysis of contemporary phenomena, and while he concerns himself with a macro-level theoretical understanding of…

Trek has recalled its Bontrager Satellite City pedals because they can fall off if not installed correctly. That, uh, is true of every pedal ever created, but fortunately they’ve clarified the problem in more depth for the pedants among us. That clarification is “Satellite City pedals require a multi-directional torque wrench to properly secure them to the crank arm. If the pedals are not properly installed on the bicycle during assembly, the pedal can fall off the crank arm. If this happens while riding the bicycle, you could lose control of the bicycle and fall.” Ok then. Trek has sold…

Wahoo officially launched their new Elmnt Bolt bike computer today. It’s a tiny bit bigger, slightly better at mapping, and has a color screen. Wow. But the big story is that we were sent all the details and completely ignored the email because it wasn’t from one of our usual secret-sharers. That means we missed out on tons of clicks from cyclists desperate to learn more about one of the ten thousand black rectangles full of conflict minerals and plastics that’ll be around 10,000 years after we’re all dead. Well fuck, how are we supposed to sell the site now?…

Vacation Inc., makers of sunscreen that smells like 1980s swimming pool trauma, have announced a brand new product: cologne that smells like sunscreen that smells like 1980s swimming pool trauma. What level of postmodernity is this? Now we have a special offer for Cyclry readers: buy their sunscreen or their cologne and you’ll either save some money, or make us some money. That’s because one of our writers moonlights as– oh come on, is this real? Do you have a business card? Ok, fine. One of our writers is Vacation’s Speedboat Aerodynamics Innovation Professional. Why not. Buy the sunscreen and/or…

How do culturally constructed female roles and external threats in public space play a part in the disproportionate number of female cyclist deaths from large vehicles in London from 1999 to 2014? Challenges It is important to note that by necessity this is an analysis of environments and the interactions they foster. While extensive data has been utilized to support and develop the argument, it is very difficult to gather accurate data about urban bicycling behavior and habits. This is equally true of nuanced information about the specificity of individual decisions leading to the causation or avoidance of particular road…