Author: Harold Dalton

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…

A New York man is the lead plaintiff in a class-action suit against Trek’s WaveCel helmets, which takes umbrage with the endless big-budget marketing campaign about a technology that would change the sport forever, only for Trek to reveal a boring helmet at the end of it. Oh wait, that actually is sort of the gist, kind of. The class-action suit argues that WaveCel helmet technology was “touted by the defendant as the most significant advancement in cycling in the last 30 years when it was released in early 2019.” Trek had claimed that WaveCel was “up to” 48 times…

Excitement and the unexpected are not intrinsically linked. Which is good news, because there were no surprises at all in the Belgian national cyclocross championships. In the Elite Women’s race, Sanne Cant won her twelfth straight national championship. Twelve. 12. In a row. What the fuck. 1Sanne Cant (Bel) Iko – Crelan0:48:392Lotte Kopecky (Bel) LIV Racing0:00:223Alicia Franck (Bel) Proximus – Alphamotorhomes – Doltcini Ct0:01:38 And in the men’s race, Wout van Aert mostly cruised to his fourth national championship win. Although Toon Aerts made the final results look fairly close, Wout van Aert was alone for the majority of the…

Predictably, Clément Venturini has won the 2020-21 French Cyclocross Championships. We say ‘predictably’ because he also won it last year. And the year before. And in 2016-17. He was the Junior World Champion for cyclo-cross too, if you think it’s just France having a weak field. Here’s what he told us, via his AG2R-Citroen team: “It was quite a race, unlike last year there were quite a few twists and turns. I knew Joshua (Dubau) would be a tough customer and he showed it today. When he came back I didn’t lose sight of the fact that I was there…