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…
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Harold Dalton
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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…
The 2021 edition of the Tour of Flanders saw such scintillating racing that it’s hard to imagine anything competing for attention. One thing has though: Michael Schar’s shock disqualification from the race. He was kicked off the race as a result of new UCI rules to prevent littering, which (as with the supertuck ban) came into effect at the start of the season but only became enforceable this month. The kicker? That the littering he was disqualified for was the act of tossing his empty bidon to a young fan at the side of the road while he rolled off…
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Move over Neuromancer and Wintermute, a super powerful Belgian AI has emerged on the scene to crash helicopters and plant enticing codes for human immortality inside ornate boxes predict bike races. Its prediction? That Mathieu van der Poel will win the Tour of Flanders. Did we need an AI to tell us that? The top five will look as follows: Mathieu van der PoelGreg Van AvermaetWout van AertOliver NaesenJasper Stuyven Which isn’t a terrible list, to be honest, but we’re finding it hard to imagine how Van Avermaet ends up between van der Poel and van Aert. How does it…