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…
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Harold Dalton
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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…
Remember Cisco Webex? It was like Zoom before Zoom, in that you’d occasionally get an invitation to use it when you had a meeting with a cycling brand, and suddenly had to scramble to install it on your PC. Might be nostalgia speaking, but it was better than Zoom. Maybe that was just the people we spoke to using it though. Anyway, Webex still exists and it’s now a strategic partner with Team DSM. Team DSM told us, “As an official partner, the Webex platform and devices will be the collaboration platform of our WorldTour cycling team, allowing the team…
The Prefect of the Hauts-de-France region has spoken: Paris-Roubaix is… well, not exactly postponed, but… Covid-19 has… sapped his optimism for the running of the race. Can someone ship us some Gauloises so we can get into the right mindset to read this quote? Here’s what Michel Lalande, the aforementioned prefect, has actually said on running the race in light of the latest Covid-19 breakout in the region: “I’ll give you an answer when the time is right, but right now you can guess. The sky now looks less blue.” You know the sky will literally look less blue too.…