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Author: Harold Dalton
Harold Dalton
Cycling industry professional with over 14 years of experience in professional journalism, television, and industry writing.
The Strade Bianche is back in its traditional March Saturday slot after last year’s brief incursion into August due to Covid. The dusty, white gravel roads are already an iconic sight on the cycling calendar, and the race has already taken on a huge amount of prestige despite only hosting its first edition in 2007. Rain and cold temperatures are forecast, making for a sticky, tough race. Sounds perfect. Let’s do it. Where to Watch UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand – GCN+Italy – Rai SportBelgium – SporzaFrance – L’Equipe Route The route remains unchanged from previous years. In numbers,…
It’s out of this world. SOL Cycling offers an accurate Martian cycling environment with plenty of special touches. Here’s our first look at the game, which is available in Early Access now. Our Fragile Colony is Crumbling… and We Must Ride SOL Cycling drops you on a Martian colony, where human settlers are attempting to forge a new life on the Red Planet. As with every Martian colony ever depicted in any media, it’s not going exactly to plan. With no power and broken supply lines, the colonists turn to their bicycles to transport goods and fix their crumbling colony.…
It’s probably not really “Candid Camera,” since only Americans have ever seen it and is these days just used as a phrase used to describe the exciting genre of “being a complete dickhead to people and filming it without them knowing.” Because you’re probably not American, you can just imagine Beadle’s About instead. Still imagining Jeremy Beadle? If you don’t feel completely shafted by the standard of our TV presenters after watching this, there’s something wrong with you. Fearne “Kitten Fart” Cotton isn’t even in the same league, before you start emailing us. The basic premise for the prank is…
It was a case of double celebration for both Tadej Pogačar and his Emirati squad after their UAE Tour victory, as the young Slovenian committed himself to the team until at least 2026. That’s a huge contract in this sport. Matar Al Yabhouni, President of UAE Team Emirates: “Tadej is our present and our future. He is a rider who was able to win the Tour de France despite his young age and still managed to handle the pressure of such a great success. He showed great poise and determination to win the UAE Tour, a race that is growing…
What’s more surprising about Italian TV pranks: that they go all-in and take everything way too far, or that they even still broadcast pranks at all? Come on, guys. It’s not the early 1990s and your presenter in a bikini is no Jeremy Beadle. Anyway, they pranked Vinny Nibz. We’ll describe/explain it, but first we’ll embed it so you can dive straight in and watch if you want to. (Link here, in case they realise we figured out how to steal their content.) Did you watch it? Have you learned a lot of new Italian swear words? Here’s some context:…
Cycling is back! Officially. The Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne double is the traditional season opener, taking place every year on a weekend at the end of February or very start of March. Although both are similar races in terms of starting line-up (expect only one or two personnel changes per team over both days) and location, Omloop looks more like the Tour of Flanders while KBK is more sprint focused. The creep of new early season races over the past few years have blurred the line as to where these two races really sit as ‘season openers.’ Yet it’s…
The Dauphine is back to its best. As well as including a time-trial again (removed for the first time ever in 2020 due to shortening the race for the Covid calendar), the 2021 edition reads like a checklist of iconic climbs for French cycling nerds. The final weekend alone includes Col de Porte, Cormet de Roseland, La Plagne (penultimate stage finish and a truly, truly magnificent climb for cycling history buffs), Col des Aravis, Col de la Colombière, Col de Joux Plane, and a stage-and-race-summit-finish at Les Gets. Are we breaking our icy cool exteriors to express a tiny bit…