Author: Harold Dalton

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Cycling industry professional with two decades of experience in professional journalism, television, and industry writing.

Garmin has finally released its eagerly-awaited 2021 Global Garmin Connect Fitness Report. Wait, this is just a blog post. Why’d they hit us up about a blog post? The report offers insights into the activities of millions of Garmin smartwatch users around the world as the COVID-19 pandemic stretched into its second year. Whether hitting the trails, the slopes or even the yoga mat, Garmin customers logged more activities in the Garmin Connect™ fitness community app than ever before, with double-digit increases in almost every activity category. Which is nice, really. “In the face of ongoing lockdowns and the emergence of new…

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Absolute Cycling, makers of the upcoming bike computer that we’re sure was once called the Absolute One but now seems to be the Absolute Cycling System, have announced that first their series of navigation tests have been successful. Absolute told us, “To finally experience our custom designed maps on the bright and high-res screen is amazing.” That’s quite a big deal, since it’s easy to get wrong. Though that other navigation-focused bike computer company just trundled on with maps and navigation never quite getting the point where it truly worked before they launched their next product, so we’ll refrain from…

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Cyclry, a GFM Publishing company, today announced its financial results for the year 2021. Despite staff turnover and a somewhat disrupted cycling season, Cyclry’s initiatives, including new Cyclry.TV content and external content production for publications and product launches, led to further success for the disruptive cycling website. Changes to organizational structures resulted in a series of landmarks, the most significant being that the site was majority women-written in 2021. Other changes, including live race broadcasting, returned similarly impressive results. GFM and Cyclry commit to further experimentation in 2022. At close of business on December 30, 2021, the site posted an…

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