That’s a headline with a lot of US state names in it. Those Midwest states that you can only find on a map if you’ve ever eaten a bloomin’ onion or own a horse ranch. Utah and North Dakoto are the latest states to adopt the Idaho Stop law for cyclists. That means cyclists in those states can treat a stop sign as a yield/give way sign. The speeds and awareness of cycling make this quite safe, and having cyclists spend as little time at intersections/junctions as possible is crucial, as these are the places where almost all collisions occur.…
Author: Harold Dalton
Harold Dalton
Cycling industry professional with over 14 years of experience in professional journalism, television, and industry writing.
After a year of absence, Dwars door Vlaanderen returns on the last day of March. As the startlist has fallen into place with many top tier riders making the start in Roeselare, it promises to be a great 75th edition of the race. The next time we see Mathieu van der Poel, Wout van Aert, and Julian Alaphilippe race together will be… not here. It’ll be at Flanders on the weekend. The Belgian is skipping this year’s Dwars door Vlaanderen in order to focus on Flanders, and has saved us all from a ‘test run for the real event’ narrative.…
That top secret Cyclry merch is still top secret. But we’ve made something else to cynically cash in on the part of the venn diagram that’s into synthwave and despises Covid-19. Just a final cash grab before you all get your vaccines. With no further ado, here’s the CUCK FOVID mask. It’s very clever. Spoonersim of FUCK COVID, of course, but also allows you to walk around with the word ‘Cuck’ across your face. If you really are a cuck, that’s probably your fetish. Oh boy, have we made fetish gear? You can buy it for $10, or $8 in…
Headlining Vlaamse Wielerwiek (at least until the Ronde) is Gent-Wevelgem, The Wind Classic. It boasts illustrious winners such as Luca Paolini, Edvald Boasson Hagen, and Marcus Burghardt. Oh, ok, and Sagan, Boonen, Cipollini, Kelly, Moser, Hinault, Merckx… Yeah, it’s a good one. Sorry if we fooled you two sentences ago. Tough climbs and brutal weather combine to make this a difficult Belgian one-day race that’s perhaps undeserving of the connotations associated with being considered a sprinters’ classic. There are no easy rides in Gent-Wevelgem, and in 2015 only 39 riders finished the race. Where to Watch UK, Europe: Eurosport, GCN+USA: FloBikes,…
Not sure if this is really that newsworthy, but we did several years of Derailed, a magazine about the cycling media, so we might as well bang this one up on the site. Also we used to work with the person who secured these rights. He’s great. Discovery/Play Sports Group/Eurosport: if you’re reading this give him a pay rise. Ask him if he’s still got that elaborate pub he built in his shed too. You might be surprised to learn that the rights weren’t already secured, since the GCN-Eurosport dyad already broadcast Omloop Het Nieuwsblad this year (albeit after initially…
Get a free NFT (non-fungible token) on us. There’s no catch, really! It could be worth $100,000 one day. $23M? More? Here is your free NFT: a photo we took of Lance Armstrong riding a cross race in 2008. Sorry it’s so small, we can’t find the original. Just right click and save and it’s yours. Hey is this how NFTs work? What’s an NFT?
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 Within ten minutes of releasing this issue, a now-popular artist reached out to tell us that it looked “absolutely revolting.” Wow, rude. Race to the Sun February 28, 2008 Spring is here. The first glimpses of sun bring a sense…
We’re getting bored of this pandemic purgatory. The Enfer du Nord endless cycle of postponement-cancelation-postponement continues into 2021 with April 11 confirmed to not have a bike race. An official confirmation is scheduled for today–ASO are remaining suspiciously quiet so far–but Le Parisien has already reported on the cancelation at the request of the Hauts-de-France region. It’s now been so long since an edition of Paris-Roubaix took place that we can’t even remember who the most recent winner was. Tom Boonen maybe? Johan Museeuw? Bernard Hinault possibly. Just kidding. It was Philippe Gilbert, way back in 2019. He’s going to…