Author: Harold Dalton

We’re on to the Ardennes, starting with the Amstel Gold Race. If you like to theme your beers with the bike race you’re watching, then this race makes it very easy. Though be warned that it’s basically Dutch Miller Lite. Last year’s race ended up canceled due to Covid-19. As a result of the pandemic, this year takes place on a shortened, closed circuit that’s likely going to have a different feel to it. But at least it’s going ahead. Where to Watch Europe: Eurosport & GCNUSA, Canada: FlobikesBelgium: SporzaNetherlands: NOS.nl, NPO1, L1mburgItaly: Rai SportFrance: France 3Spain: EITBAustralia: SBSAfrica: SuperSportDenmark/Norway:…

It’s a rather unexpected turn of events, but Gianni Savio is back at the Giro. Giro race director Mauro Vegni’s relationship with Savio and his Androni team is fraught, to say the least, but the Androni team has found its way back to Italy’s top table by virtue of being a quality Italian squad eager to race umm… Gianni Savio apologising and promising not to add 200 new sponsors specifically for the race oh, it’s being pretty much the only domestic PCT team eligible for the spot at the race. And the reason this opportunity was available at all? The Vini…

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? Discourse of Stasis Returning to a point made in part one, campaigners for road danger reduction are keen to construct a discursive demarcation between recreational cycling and transportational cycling in order to avoid this danger being discussed as a sporting, rather than urban planning, issue. It should be clear from this text so far that there is nothing to suggest a causal relation between road danger and any…

The Global Endurance Sports Series GFNY has added what’s sure to become an instant classic event for sportive riders. The GFNY La Vaujany takes place in the French Alps, and climbs cycling’s most legendary mountain, the Alpe d’Huez, twice. That’s once from the side you almost certainly know, and one from the side you probably don’t know. The race takes place on June 20, 2021, and covers 103km with 3,669m of climbing. This is GFNY’s second event in Vaujany. The first, GFNY Alpes Vaujany, will see its second edition on August 29, 2021 and includes the legendary Col de la…

Our “don’t talk about the Tour of Turkey” resolve has waned. Mark Cavendish (Deceuninck-Quick Step) has won the second stage of the race from a bunch sprint, taking his first victory since February 8, 2018. The 144.9km stage finish in Konya with a blisteringly fast sprint, and Cavendish soared past Scheldepris winner Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Fenix) to take the win and the leader’s jersey. Cavendish has been threatening to return to his top-tier sprinting self since he switched teams to Deceuninck-Quick Step this season. He finished third in Scheldeprijs to take the record for podiums in that race, though Philipsen and…

The engine roared in the distance, growing closer. This dimly-lit north London suburb would soon be disturbed by the approaching vehicle. For a half second the sound seemed to stop, and then the ambulance careened around the corner, sirens off, at such a speed that it bounced off the curb. The impact sent a single hubcap flying through the air and into the hungry mouth of a postbox. Inside the ambulance, the driver, with his eyes closed, mumbled something. “Again, Bertha? You’re insatiable.” Behind him, a paramedic held a scalpel loosely, hand rising and falling with the bumps of the…

Remco Evenepoel will remain with Patrick Lefevere at QuickStep until at least the end of 2026. It’s the longest contract in the pro peloton right now, only matched by Tour de France winner Tadej Pogacar’s contract that also ends in 2026. Such long contracts are becoming more common–Wout van Art, for example, is contracted with Jumbo-Visma until the end of 2024–but remain rare in a sport in which pro team sponsorships are often fragile, short-lived phenomena. Lefevere was helped by a right of first refusal built into Evenepoel’s current contract, meaning he could only leave if the team ceased to…

T-Mobile has kicked off its 2021 T-Mobile Accelerator Spring Immersive Technology Program, designed to be “part of T-Mobile’s ongoing mission to fuel 5G innovation.” This is relevant because Everysight–who are also friends, and former colleagues, of Cyclry–are one of the eight handpicked participants. Everysight’s Raptor is a pair of smartglasses that display all your ride metrics and maps. They contain all the bike computer technology within them, so they fully replace your Garmin, and weigh less than most handlebar-mounted bike computers. They’re also the first, and for now also the only, smartglasses to display data on the lens of the sunglasses, rather…