Author: Harold Dalton

The Giro is nearly here. We’ve already shared INEOS’s team, who are our favorites to win the overall (though far from our favorites in the other sense of the word). Now it’s time for some more. AG2R La Mondiale “We’ll arrive at the start of this autumnal Giro d’Italia with desire and determination. We will trust in the younger riders like Jaakko Hänninen and Aurélien Paret-Peintre, who will both celebrate their first participation in a Grand Tour. The latter will start off without being under any pressure, but will have the ambition to aim for the best possible overall classification.…

Ah, the Natchez Trace 444. It’s a race we all know and love. Or it is now that I’ve just learned it exists. It’s a qualifier for the Race Across America, and the 444 in its name refers to the distance of 444 miles that it takes in as it travels the length of the Natchez Trace Parkway from Nashville, TN to Natchez, MS. The parkway travels through three states and roughly follows the “Old Natchez Trace,” a historic travel corridor, which, according to the National Parks Service, takes you on a journey through 10,000 years of history, from American…

In the latest bad, but nevertheless completely unsurprising, news from a 2020 that appears systematically designed to destroy us all, the remainder of the 2020 USA Cycling National Championships have been canceled. Guess why? Yeah, you knew. While Europe is successfully hosting grand tours, COVID-19 is still wrecking shit in the USA. That means no cyclocross nationals, which was kind of the last bastion of civilization. Uh, at least for US cycling fans. USA Cycling tells us “After months of planning and seeking alternatives to hold a safe and successful Cyclocross Nationals, USA Cycling is announcing today the cancellation of…

At the start of the Tour, we picked seven riders who’d play a part in the overall story of the race. Here’s our retrospective look at their performances. Hey, how did Nairo get on this list? Egan Bernal A flash in the pan? Well, that might be harsh. Still, INEOS banked on the Colombian being the future of grand tours for a generation, but the rider that actually showed up never looked fully on pace. Eventually he began to drop time. Soon he was hemorrhaging it. After losing seven minutes to Roglic to end his Tour hopes, and then almost…

Listen on Anchor.fm Welcome to Tour de France Stage Zero, part three. We’re going to chat about what’s happened in the past week, and give our predictions for the final week. The government has banned gatherings of more than six people, which spells bad news for the Jumbo Visma team on literally every mountain in this year’s tour. It also means that one of our listeners is going to have to wait ten minutes before hitting play. Pandemic jokes in September. Good lord. What Happened Stage 10 – Sam Bennett Cries The first stage back, Stage 10, was a flat…

We weren’t entirely sure what the Levo line is. Well, we know now. We went straight to the website after seeing these videos. So that’s good marketing if the Specialized team was specifically trying to make the Cyclry team aware of this product line. It’s a line of electric MTBs, by the way. These ads are: 100% in our aestheticKinda funnyEmbeddable on our site The last point is the most important one. Here they are. And, this is terribly important, we have to say it: Nova Major, hello. We know you’re fictional, but do you want to write for our…

Vincenzo Nibali shared it first, but he’s not the biggest Italian cycling legend in this video: It starts with old Vinny Nibz going for a gentle spin. He goes through a misty forest. Is the implication that it’s a magical forest? It could be. After leaving the possibly magical forest, he encounters Fausto Coppi handing Gino Bartali a water bottle. “I hope they’re really adding Coppi in here and not Jar-Jar Binks.” Soon we’ve got an entire peloton of uncanny valley cycling legends. Then they do one of modern cycling’s most iconic moments: Pantani suffering a mechanical at the base…

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7HJhxQXmEUWG73F2WgfP6Y?si=CL_F4Yu3TyShaxPlQElhGg What’s been happening so far in this… most eventful of Tours de France? Stage 1 The first stage of the Tour de France is always packed with crashes. Add torrential rain and a Tour caravan that sprayed laundry detergent onto the streets an hour before the race passed through, and you’ve got something that looks more like an episode of Takeshi’s Castle than the world’s biggest sporting event. Of course, risk management is part of cycling. Those who are more skillful or confident can take the risks that improve their performance. Wanting the race to stop because you’re not…