October 4, 2020. “Hits a bit too close to home” Julian Alaphilippe’s first race as World Champion was a disaster. Thinking he’d won Liege-Bastogne-Liege, he sat up to celebrate, only to have Primoz Roglic inch past him at the finish line. And then he was relegated to the back of the lead group anyway. Just like somebody who graduated in February right in time for the entire world to shut down due to a pandemic. Visit the main Advent Calendar page
Author: Harold Dalton
Harold Dalton
Cycling industry professional with over 14 years of experience in professional journalism, television, and industry writing.
September 21, 2020. “Stop, he’s already dead!” Meme explainer here: Tadej Pogacar dominated his countryman, Primoz Roglic, so thoroughly in the Tour de France that this Redditor jests that he might switch to ski jumping next, the sport Roglic competed in before switching to cycling. Visit the main Advent Calendar page
September 5, 2020. “Mr. Madiot, I don’t feel so good… (Yearly repost)” It’s the “yearly repost” that gets us. Poor Thibaut. Visit the main Advent Calendar page
March 14, 2020. “Thomas ‘Solo’ de Gendt, the Incontagiable” An excellent early Covid-19 crossover meme. Thomas de Gendt loves a solo breakaway, so social distancing is easy for him. Wow, it’s not funny when you explain it, huh. Visit the main Advent Calendar page
October 5, 2020. EF are the best dressed crew in the peloton. Not a contest. Even with the duck helmets. Visit the main Advent Calendar page
September 12, 2020. “What a ride” A timely Michael Scott meme here, just 15 years after that episode aired. The Y2K equivalent would be us yelling nonsense mid-1980s catchphrases into the ether on some ugly website nobody reads… wait, wait. Visit the main Advent Calendar page
Are you in the part of the Venn diagram that LOVES pro cycling and video games? Or, like us, are you so ingrained in pro cycling that you can’t look away, and playing video games constantly because you’re in lockdown? Well, either way, here’s some good(?) news: Tour de France 2019 and Tour de France 2020 are both on sale until December 22 as part of Sony’s End of Year Deals promotion. Tour de France 2019 is just $11.99 now, while this year’s edition is half price at $24.99. Thinking of buying? They’re both extremely similar, so unless you want…
October 21, 2020: “18 years too long” Did you guess that it was about Paris-Roubaix being canceled? As it happened, it did rain that day. Well, fuck. Visit the main Advent Calendar page