Author: Harold Dalton

UAE Team Emirates have confirmed to us the first hint at what their plans are for the 2021 grand tours. And, to be honest, they’re not exactly shocking. In the Giro d’Italia, they’ll be taking former Italian national champion Davide Formolo, plus Brandon McNulty and Fernando Gaviria. That combo has to be good for at least a stage win, right? Moving into July, Tadej Pogačar will attempt to defend his 2020 Tour de France victory. New signing Marc Hirshi—a signing Mauro Gianetti has described as the biggest and most impactful of the off-season—will primarily target stage victories while doing his…

Three Bora-Hansgrohe riders have been taken to hospital in Italy following an incident in which a driver crossed the center line and crashed into the team’s training ride. Seven riders were involved in the incident, and Wilco Kelderman, Rüdiger Selig, and Andreas Schillinger were sufficiently injured that they needed to go to hospital. Kelderman, third in the 2020 Giro d’Italia, sustained a concussion and fractured vertebrae. Rüdi Selig was diagnosed with a concussion. Schillinger sustained broken vertebrae in the cervical and thoracic spine. Which sounds particularly nasty. Unofficial reports describe a Mercedes SUV ignoring a stop sign and pulling out…

It’s another race cancelation. Kind of. The UCI Cross Worlds are canceled due to Covid… but only the Junior races. Why? Don’t know, really. Maybe young people are especially vulnerable to the disease. It’s not a huge surprise, since it’s been happening throughout the cyclo-cross season. Still, sucks for the kids. In a statement that’s presumably not intended to be quite as bristling with sarcasm as it seems, the UCI told us: “The competent authorities of Belgium have confirmed that both the Elite and Under 23 races for men and women at the 2021 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships can go…

1980. The start of a new decade. Disco was dying. New musical waves had emerged. The world was modernizing and cutthroat capitalism was driving the march to a terrible new normal. In the cycling world, it also felt like a period of upheaval. While the sport had a whole supporting cast of legends and mythical moment, the 1970s had undeniably been dominated by Eddy Merckx. The Beglian, widely considered the all-time greatest cyclist, didn’t achieve any major wins after 1975, but he remained in the sport as a living legend until his retirement in 1978. A young upstart had disrupted…

The UAE Tour will go ahead, its organizers have told Cyclry. The race is scheduled to run from February 21 to 27. If that all sounds too peachy for a 2021 that’s already trying its best to upstage its big brother, here’s a big red flag: the race route has still not been confirmed. Only the start and finish locations of the first WorldTour race of the season are set in stone. That’s Abu Dhabi and… err… Abu Dhabi. Which sounds suspiciously like they’re going to lock the riders in their hotel rooms for a week. Again. Yes, last year…

How do culturally constructed female roles and external threats in public space play a part in the disproportionate number of female cyclist deaths from large vehicles in London from 1999 to 2014? Introduction The disproportionate number of female road deaths from large vehicles can be attributed to the way in which feminine spatial modality and the threat of abuse transforms their road experience, leaving them unlikely to perform the highly visible road positioning required to avoid this danger, nor to ride at night or traverse the quiet, less populated streets and alleys that would physically separate them from this particular…

The legendary Greg LeMond—or his branding at least—returned to bicycle manufacturing last year, relaunching the LeMond brand with two high-end, lightweight electric bikes built for performance. The aptly-named Prolog is the first of these two bikes to be delivered to customers, with shipping beginning in February. With just a couple of short weeks left before it lands with its first eager customers, the new Prolog E-Bike from LeMond is now ready to meet the public. We’ve taken a first look at the final production model. Super Light Weight There’s no denying it: the LeMond Prolog eBike is fast. It’s packed with…

Time to update our 2021 Bike Race Cancelation Bingo Cards. The Vuelta a San Juan, optimistically scheduled to take place from January 24-31, is officially canceled for this season. Yes, it’s COVID-19. Following recommendations of national and international bodies, the organizers have decided that it’s not possible to safely and effectively run the Argentine race this year. But it’ll be back. The organizers told us: “San Juan will continue to work with the same passion and spirit for the growth of the sport and this Argentine classic that will seek in the coming years to maintain its international character in…